Related to this, what is the status of fwrap? Can it be used with fortran 95/2003 language features? There is a rather large code crystallographic codebase (fullprof) that is written in fortran 77 that the author has been porting to fortran 95/2003 and actually using modules for. I'd like to write python bindings for it to make it more scriptable...
William On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:33 PM, <baker.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My two pence worth, my experience is across python, C++ and fortran (and a > few other languages) and the posts here are interesting and relevant. I > think that the true value of any of these languages is knowing any of them > well, if you happen to work with other folks who share the same skills more > the better. No more than that. > > As a user of a very old large very fortran codebase as well as engineer of > more structured approaches, I would take the OO toolset everytime, for > reasons already covered. > > The real challenge I see every day in scientific community is the lack of > software craftmanship skills, code archiving, unit testing. End of two > pence. > > Alex > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> > Sender: numpy-discussion-boun...@scipy.org > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:12:21 > To: Discussion of Numerical Python<numpy-discussion@scipy.org> > Reply-To: Discussion of Numerical Python <numpy-discussion@scipy.org> > Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Fortran was dead ... [was Re: > rewriting NumPy code in C or C++ or similar] > > On 03/16/2011 08:10 PM, Ravi wrote: > > On Monday 14 March 2011 15:02:32 Sebastian Haase wrote: > >> Sturla has been writing so much about Fortran recently, and Ondrej now > >> says he has done the move from C/C++ to Fortran -- I thought Fortran > >> was dead ... !? ;-) > >> What am I missing here ? > > Comparing Fortran with C++ is like comparing Matlab with Python. Fortran > is > > very good at what it does but it does not serve the same audience as C++. > The > > typical comparisons work like this: > > <snip> > > I think the main point being made by most here though is that *in > combination with Python*, Fortran can be quite helpful. If one is using > Python anyway for the high-level stuff, the relative strengths of C++ > w.r.t. Fortran that you list become much less important. Same for > code-reuse: When only used from a Python wrapper, the Fortran code can > become so simplistic that it also becomes reusable. > > Dag Sverre > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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