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

[Michael Kraemer @ home]

Andreas Eder wrote:
> On So 24 Jan 2021 at 18:22, "Michael Kraemer @ home" <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
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>>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.
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> Modern fortran is no longer  like Fortran 77.

Too late.
The transition to C/C++ happened already in the 1990s.
F90 wasn't ready, C/C++ was.