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Re: st: Re: FORTRAN
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: FORTRAN
Date
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:12:44 -0500
At 03:38 PM 8/30/2010, Michael I. Lichter wrote:
1. I second Tony's advice that you don't want to take the time to
learn FORTRAN (an ancient and nearly-dead language that I last
programmed in nearly 30 (!) years ago) if you can avoid it. Hire
somebody to help if at all possible.
FORTRAN was old when the world was young. Several billion people
have been born and died since I last used it. But according to
Wikipedia, FORTRAN itself continues to thrive and prosper. Among
other things, Wikipedia says
"Since Fortran has been in use for more than fifty years, there is a
vast body of Fortran in daily use throughout the scientific and
engineering communities. It is the primary language for some of the
most intensive supercomputing tasks, such as weather and climate
modeling, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry,
computational economics, plant breeding and computational physics.
Even today, half a century later, many of the floating-point
benchmarks to gauge the performance of new computer processors are
still written in Fortran (e.g., CFP2006, the floating-point component
of the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks)."
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