Comment on PETITION TO RETIRE FORTRAN (at JPL)

[ольга крыжановская]

I agree. It is like the petitions to get rid of C and to have it
replaced with 'something better'.

Olga

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:49 AM, N.M. Maclaren <nmm1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Oct 9 2013, John Chludzinski wrote:
>>
>>
>> Wondering whether gfortran with its support for "modern" Fortran ('90,
>> '95, 2003, 2008) was changing the prospects for Fortran.
>
>
> No.  It is preserving them.  Fortran is alive and well and used for the
> sort of scientific programming it was originally designed for, and is
> unlikely ever again to expand out of that area.  gfortran helps to ensure
> its viability by being a high-quality compiler available for free.
>
> There has been no change since a year ago when you raised this on
> comp.lang.fortran, and there is unlikely to be much change before at
> least 2020.  Please regard that inane petition as dead, and do not try
> to resuscitate it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
>
>



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