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Kevin Cowtan wrote:
I am comming to the conclusion that the merits of a language (or otherwise) are pretty much irrelevent when it comes to what is popular. More important issues are: 1. What are other people using? 2. What are students learning? 3. What are the libraries written in?
I asked if Fortran is popular, not if it is good, because points 1 and 2 are directly related to popularity. The future answer to point 3 also relates to popularity.
Also, the C interoperability features of F2003 will make it more practical to mix Fortran and C (or C++).
Joe Krahn
