[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Prentice Bisbal]

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?

--
Prentice


On 11/28/18 11:50 AM, Paul Edmon wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Once C has native arrays and orders them properly, then we can talk :).
>
> -Paul Edmon-
>
> On 11/28/18 11:36 AM, Peter St. John wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM Stu Midgley <sdm900 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:sdm900 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I agree 100% .  You can't beat bash and fortran.
>>
>>     On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:02 AM Paul Edmon
>>     <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         Fortran is and remains an awesome language.  More people
>>         should use it:
>>
>>         https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html
>>
>>         -Paul Edmon-
>>
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>>     Dr Stuart Midgley
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