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How does modern Fortran compare to a more recent general-purpose programming language? Python has had the most rapidly growing ecosystem in the past few years for data analysis and light number crunching (http://mng.bz/XP71). It’s used by many Fortran programmers for postprocessing of model output and data analysis. In fact, Python is my second favorite programming […]
Many Fortran features give it both an advantage and a disadvantage. For example, it’s all of the following: The comparison of Fortran to Python that follows will help you better understand its advantages and disadvantages in the general-purpose programming context.
There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it–the horror of it, Sura said–was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in […]
This is not your parents’ Fortran. –Damian Rouson In the context of programming languages, Fortran is all of the following:
I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. –Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award Fortran is a general-purpose, parallel programming language that excels in scientific and engineering applications. Originally called FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) in 1957, it has evolved over decades […]