[Info-vax] Is C++ good in scientific computation? Why did Fortran lose its popularity?

[Scott Dorsey]

ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>Very good comparison by a Former member of ISO/ANSI J3 Fortran Standards Co=
>mmittee begs the question how C ever became the choice to do anything

It really didn't.  The people who were using Fortran for HPC stuff before
are pretty much all still using Fortran today.

The people who were using Fortran for non-HPC numerical stuff are using
matlab or python because the development is very easy and... if they really
cared about performance they'd be doing HPC stuff.

Resistance to new features, and especially resistance to allowing engineers
to use pointers, has been the saving grace for Fortran.
--scott

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