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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/25/2021 8:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> At least no-one has suggested that Fortran code can be replaced by
> Javascript (as far as I am aware anyway. :-))

Be careful what you wish for.

A number of languages can be transpiled into JavaScript.

Including Kotlin, Scala, F#, Python and Ruby.

Transpiling Fortran 77 to JavaScript should really be
a piece of cake compared to those languages.

:-) :-) :-)

Arne