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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/28/2021 8:03 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-28, Andy Burns <usenet at andyburns.uk> wrote:
>>
>> In the past, PHP had unsafe options enabled by default, e.g.
>> register_globals
>>
>> Now that hasn't been true for a long time, unfortunately some systems
>> implemented in PHP require turning register_globals back on to work ...
> 
> register_globals has been fully removed in the latest versions of PHP.
> 
> (Thank goodness.)

Default off in 4.1 (2002)
Deprecated in 5.3 (2009)
Removed in 5.4 (2012)

Current is 7.4 and 8.0 (note no 6.x).

Arne