[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-04-04 20:39:21 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:

> IMHO hacking OO onto languages desigend for an older paradigm is just 
> plain wrong.  Fortran had a specific purpose.  Most o fthe work doing 
> that today needs to be very parallel.  I have not wroked much with 
> Fortran beyond 77 but I odubt it is optimized for parallel computing.

F77 is pretty old.

There are parallel processing coarray features 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-array_Fortran> that are part of the 
Fortran 2008 standard, but the extension has been around for a while.

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