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

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 11:10:38 EST 2021


On 1/24/21 3:09 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rui9jd$q06$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) writes:
> 
>> ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Very good comparison by a Former member of ISO/ANSI J3 Fortran Standards
>>> Committee begs the question how C ever became the choice to do anything
> 
> Interesting discussion, but it didn't beg the question.  It asks the
> question.  Beg the question means something different.
> 

Easy answer really.  The demise  of domain specific languages happened
to coincide with the rise of Unix and thus C.  C was the hammer and in
the general purpose computing world every task is a nail.  Especially
if you think of nails as objects.

bill




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