Fortran Forever

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story imageArsTechnica has an interesting article featured today about scientific computing and the enduring role played by the Fortran programming language . The article explores three potential challengers to the dominance of Fortran in scientific computing including Haskell , Clojure , and Julia . One of the main points made by the article is that support for existing Fortran and C libraries is essential as is support for concurrent (parallel) algorithms. Will Fortran rule scientific computing forever or will a challenger usurp the throne?

[edited 2014-05-09 13:32 for spelling]

What about R? Go? Python? (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-08 16:44 (#1G5)

I think the scientists all like Python quite a bit. But Go comes to mind too - isn't that supposed be a language well suited for scientific number crunching and the like?
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