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<p>Fortran was the second programming language I learned, behind
BASIC. I took Fortran classes in high school, and then was
required to take Intro to Fortran for Engineers class freshman
year of college. As a result, I took multi-dimensional arrays for
granted. Years later, I tried created a multi-dimensional array in
C. What the hell, C? <br>
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<p>It's still the case the for intense numerical analysis Fortran
is best even though the gap between it and C has diminished.
Being a computational astrophysicist by training I can speak
from experience that Fortran is superior to C for doing serious
numerical work at scale. What Fortran does well it does very
well, and it still does very well.</p>
<p>Once C has native arrays and orders them properly, then we can
talk :).</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe I'm being too serious but in the old days,
Fortran was the most mature, maintained compiler and the
libraries were great, then later, C had better compilers but
the libraries were still great. Now, I think the only good
thing about Fortran is that it's pretty easy to learn?
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM Stu Midgley
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<div dir="ltr">I agree 100% . You can't beat bash and
fortran.</div>
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is and remains an awesome language. More people should
use it:<br>
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