Anybody here work with FORTRAN? I've recently started learning it and it seems like a really interesting, if archaic, language. Really, from what I've seen, it feels more like a scripting language than a full-blown compiled language. If you do use FORT

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▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 03:34:17 No.930100>>930250 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Anybody here work with FORTRAN? I've recently started learning it and it seems like a really interesting, if archaic, language. Really, from what I've seen, it feels more like a scripting language than a full-blown compiled language.

If you do use FORTRAN, what compiler do you use and which is your favorite? What do you use it for and would a more contemporary language do it better (are you using FORTRAN to deal with legacy baggage?)

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 12:31:24 No.930249

>/tech/ doing real work

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 12:36:41 No.930250>>930330

>>930100 (OP)

Fortran is currently the best language for distributed numeric operations. Multidimensional array calculations on a cluster and what not. It is consistently benchmarked as the fastest in this domain. Its absolute shit for everything else these days though.

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 15:18:00 No.930284>>930330

Number crunching*? Use FORTRAN.

* Only if you're running code on a super-computing cluster *might* you be number crunching.

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 18:16:21 No.930330>>930357

>>930284

>>930250

Massive parallelism seems weird for something so old.

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 19:01:51 No.930357>>930366

>>930330

Fortran has been kept updated. Last stable release from 2008 t. wikipedia.

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 19:24:25 No.930366>>930419

>>930357

There are huge codebases in fortran that have to be maintained so the groups pay for tool support. It has OpenCL/CUDA glue too as all those CPU + MPI clusters need to gradually incorporate modern tech.

▶Anonymous 06/14/18 (Thu) 21:44:14 No.930419

>>930366

I've actually done some modeling work with CUDA FORTRAN for an egnineering firm and prefer it over JavaCL, which is, itself, easier than C++ OpenCL.

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