Hacker Read

sadfklsjlkjwt | karma 159 | avg karma 1.89 · 2019-10-30 16:14:18+00:00

Fortran from the 1980s is still supported...

cik | karma 2500 | avg karma 4.01 · 2019-10-30 16:28:23+00:00

Hell, I fixed something in Turing last week. My eyes are still bleeding.

pletnes | karma 1915 | avg karma 2.33 · 2019-10-30 11:42:10

You misspelled the 1960s.

gowld | karma 8809 | avg karma 1.33 · 2019-10-30 17:25:11+00:00

And yet almost no one chooses to write new Fortran code for applications. We rely on a few ancient critical widely used libraries like BLAS, accessed from non-Fortran programs.

greglindahl | karma 9606 | avg karma 2.0 · 2019-10-30 18:22:59+00:00

This is not true, there are niches where Fortran is still dominant for new code.

Also for BLAS, the underlying code is usually no longer Fortran.

reply

greglindahl | karma 9606 | avg karma 2.0 · 2019-10-30 13:22:28

Fortran from the 1960s is still supported. Almost all modern Fortran compilers support syntax that was deprecated decades ago.