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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2021 6:55 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 1/24/21 1:52 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/23/2021 2:35 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
> [quote from Craig Dedo]
>>> Fortran has no politically powerful sponsor or champion. There is no
>>> highly influential person or organization in the software development
>>> community that is pushing strongly to make Fortran much more popular.
>>
>> Python only got one person Guido van Rossum.
> 
> Python has had significant investment from many of the behemoths of the
> tech industry, including Google's paying Guido's salary while he worked
> on Python. My impression is that Guido has not been the only one with
> this support, but I have not followed that closely (I do know he is no
> longer the Benevolent Dictator For Life and the project is now led by a
> steering council).
> 
> Microsoft includes Python in Visual Studio.  Pretty much every
> introductory programming course these days, university or otherwise,
> uses Python. There are many powerful champions of Python. So I really
> don't know where one could get the idea that Python "got [sic] one person."

I guess that wording of mine is so exaggerated that it is false.

Of course Python got large corporate support today.

So let me rephrase: I don't think Python became
successful due to corporate support - I think Python
got corporate support due to its success.

Arne