On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:33:43PM -0600, Nathan Moore wrote: > After reflection though, I've started to wonder about the wisdom of my > choice.
I haven't seen a vendor lib that didn't have a Fortran interface (ACML does, ATLAS does, goto does), and I hear that CUDA may well have Fortran soonish -- after all, the compiler infrastructure it's built on does Fortran. But the concrete points you make are probably just symptoms of your general unease. For me the biggest concern would be pointers. It's well known that students new to C struggle with them. You're trying to teach more than 2 languages in a single course. And the C pointer hell is a lot more than 3 weeks. > Also, and more relevant, I assume that most employers word-associate > "Fortran is to backwards as C is to competence". Unless you're a physicist. And if we're talking about employing someone as a _scientific_ programmer, I'd expect them to know both. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
