Subj : Why physicists still use Fortran
To   : All
From : White-Knight-32-KS
Date : Mon Oct 16 2017 12:03:31

I knew it was updated around 2000 and around 2008, but I never knew who used
it, since I was taught the 77 release. At one time, my IBM stinkpad on Ubuntu
6.06 was able to run all 3.

Why physicists still use Fortran

http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/

Further reading:

The Ideal HPC Programming Language A software engineer does a detailed analysis
(quite above my head) and concludes Fortran comes closest to the ideal language
for HPC.

Is Fortran faster than C? The first answer to this StackOverflow question
explains why Fortran's assumption of no aliasing of memory makes it faster than
C.

Implicit None  a blog written by a Fortran enthusiast

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