On 03/16/2011 08:10 PM, Ravi wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2011 15:02:32 Sebastian Haase wrote: >> Sturla has been writing so much about Fortran recently, and Ondrej now >> says he has done the move from C/C++ to Fortran -- I thought Fortran >> was dead ... !? ;-) >> What am I missing here ? > Comparing Fortran with C++ is like comparing Matlab with Python. Fortran is > very good at what it does but it does not serve the same audience as C++. The > typical comparisons work like this:
<snip> I think the main point being made by most here though is that *in combination with Python*, Fortran can be quite helpful. If one is using Python anyway for the high-level stuff, the relative strengths of C++ w.r.t. Fortran that you list become much less important. Same for code-reuse: When only used from a Python wrapper, the Fortran code can become so simplistic that it also becomes reusable. Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
