On 10/05/2014 00:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Thu, 08 May 2014 22:21:25 -0400, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> declaimed the
following:
In article <536c3049$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for
accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writing new
applications. There may be niches where that does not hold, where people
are actively writing new applications in Fortran, but they are niches.
Today, Fortran is rarely used for general purpose computing, updated
standards or no updated standards.
Oddly enough, my current use of Fortran is via Python. The scipy and
statsmodels libraries use Fortran routines under the covers.
To me, that is NOT "use of Fortran"... It is nothing more than the use
of a /library with a documented calling spec (API)/.
That the library was written in Fortran is irrelevant. Especially if
one is working a VMS system where all the languages had features for
calling functions written on others (in effect, the equivalent of Python's
ctypes module, as a general commonality on the system)
Oh the joy, a tedious, repetative thread is made infinitely better by
the mention of three wonderful letters, V, M and S. What bliss :)
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