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

Andreas Eder a_eder_muc at web.de
Sun Jan 24 13:01:19 EST 2021


On So 24 Jan 2021 at 18:22, "Michael Kraemer @ home" <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> There's more to scientific computing than just vector operation
> and FORmula TRANslation.
> Think of increasingly complex large scale experiments at
> particle accelerators, satellites, telescopes and such.
> Fortran 77 just isn't appropriate to handle their data definition,
> reduction, storage and simulation.

Modern fortran is no longer  like Fortran 77.
If you like you can program object oriented.

'Andreas



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