FORTRAN?

Who here uses Fortran? I am specifically interested in Fortran 90 or 95, not Fortran 77. F77 is almost unreadable to me.

Looking at http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/f90.html or http://www.sdsc.edu/~tkaiser/f90.html

It seems like an interesting language and it's much more advanced than F77. And it's supposed to be very fast and good for numerical stuff. I wish it had top level functions though.

What do you think of it?

i use F11 for full-screen

>>1

I had some experience with Fortran, it's a nice language. But there's no need to stick with it anymore, specially if you do C.

If you're really going into it, pick the newest standard (or draft) supported by modern tools, maybe F03.

>>3
Reason I am interested is because Fortran supports arrays so well, which C doesn't come close to. You can do subarrays like in Matlab (meaning a(1:10, 2:20:2) etc where a is a 2 dimensional array) and add arrays element by element with just the + operator. So you can do numerical stuff in a more straightforward manner like in Matlab. Also, about Fortran 2003 and higher, most of the compilers right now don't support all of the features in the specs. So I have to stick to F95.

I am kind of hesitant in learning it though because they don't have very many obvious tutorials or anything like that and there is always an assumption that you know F77 to some extent.