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]

parallel disscussion (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-10 20:22 (#1GV)

The /. discussion of this Ars article is actually pretty good. Old school good in fact.
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