Comment on PETITION TO RETIRE FORTRAN (at JPL)

[John Chludzinski]

I'm hopeful.

---John

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> wrote:
> On 10/09/2013 06:55 AM, John Chludzinski wrote:
>
>> Wondering whether gfortran with its support for "modern" Fortran ('90,
>> '95, 2003, 2008) was changing the prospects for Fortran.
>
>
> In our environment (weather forecasting and atmospheric research) I noticed
> that after gfortran became mature enough to compile WRF
> http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php) correctly (ca. 4.3), we got students
> from the nearby university who could actually program in Fortran and work
> with models (not only WRF, but our own also).  Before that, we had to
> formulate our problems for them so that they could use Matlab to solve them
> (i.e., toy problems).
>
> So I wouldn't dismiss your suggestion :-)
>
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