On AD 2007 December 14 Friday 02:08:07 PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Look around in the HPC community and you'll find people doing physics > simulations and such in Fortran. I imagine they get pretty decent > pay, too. Just because you didn't use the Fortran skills doesn't mean > you couldn't have.
Yup, been there. And we were using F77 :-), but that's probably only because gcc-4 hadn't been released yet. I never hacked on the FORTRAN code though I could have and nobody would have thought anything of it except that all the other undergrads and grads used C++/Bash/Perl. Why would you use FORTRAN when lots of better languages existed? The thing is though that FORTRAN hasn't really been completely replaced. That's why I think Fortress will enjoy a broad user base. http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/fortress.pdf Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
