Fortran continues to be amazing, especially in HPC scenarios. Fortress has the potential to surpass it, but not until Oracle implements a way to avoid the heavy cost of boxing/unboxing primitives.
Several solutions have been proposed, including fixnums, tuple types and stack allocation. I eagerly await seeing what will be decided in the end. Of course, once this is sorted then everything will benefit; including Scala, Clojure, Fortress, X10, JRuby, Java, etc. etc. On 9 December 2011 07:41, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 06:56 -0800, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > [...] > > Yes indeed, a pickup truck is basically a better horse and cart in the > > same way that Scala is a better Fortran. > [...] > > Have you actually looked at Fortran 2009? Fortran remains the most > suitable language for writing computational intensive algorithms. Java, > Scala, C, etc. don't get a look in. C++ and D can get close. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
