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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2021 11:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

There was a time like the 90's where it seemed like the world
was converging towards C and C++.

But no more. Today programming languages has turned
more diverse than ever.

C/C++
JVM with Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy etc.
.NET with C#, VB.NET and F#
PHP
Python
R
Rust and Go
JavaScript (not just client side but also server side with node.js)

And even though at some time like late 90's early 00's OO was *the*
paradigm, then today it is all multi-paradigm languages.

Langues supports OO, Functional and Generic.

Arne