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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/23/21 5:56 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

And my God help you if you ever  have to work on a business
program written in Fortran by a bored engineer with no summer
work.  :-)

bill