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What is FORTRAN still used for?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 8:03

And why is it still used at all?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 8:17

For FORTRAN programming.
Because it is used by FORTRAN programmers.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 8:18

1)
numerical stuff/ scientific computing
I hear the libraries are very efficient and well debugged/scientists don't know any better
2)
Fortress isn't finished yet

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 8:44

Didn't we have this exact thread a month or so ago?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 8:52

>>4
Not exactly.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 10:27

Its losing ground to BlitzBasic now that scientists are being replaced with artists.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 13:36

>>6
BlitzBasic - coming soon to a supercomputer near you

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-08 16:52

>>2
Pretty much the first thing. Scientists are too lazy to learn another language. SPEC still has some floating-point benchmarks written in Fartran. All of their integer benchmarks are C and C++.

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