On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:02:23AM -0700, David Schultz wrote: > Fortran has its own problems and isn't very well supported.
I take issue with the later assertion. Fortran is well support in GCC >4.6. See GCC list of front-end maintainers. :-) > But for what it's worth, C++ is actually a good choice for > high-performance numerics, IMO, mainly because of operator > overloading and generics. I can write a function that looks like > actual math, and call it with a float, a double, or even an > arbitrary-precision mpfr_t, and it just works. I almost spit my morning coffee on my keyboard. One can do the same thing in Fortran. Of course, I'm talking about a modern version of Fortran: namely, Fortran 2003 or Fortran 2008. -- Steve _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
