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Re: st: Re: FORTRAN
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: FORTRAN
Date
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:42:41 -0400
,
--
FORTRAN was also my first language, followed by BASIC. According to
Wikipedia, FORTRAN originally _was_ an acronym, derived from IBM's
"Mathematical Formula Translating System".
Steve
Steven J. Samuels
[email protected]
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard makes the point I wanted to make.
>
> As a side issue -- and declaring a history as another ex-Fortran programmer (for a while it was my only language...) -- FORTRAN was born that way, with an all caps name, in the style of the times. But as the name is not an acronym, Fortran is now standard spelling.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Richard Williams
>
> At 03:38 PM 8/30/2010, Michael I. Lichter wrote:
>>1. I second Tony's advice that you don't want to take the time to
>>learn FORTRAN (an ancient and nearly-dead language that I last
>>programmed in nearly 30 (!) years ago) if you can avoid it. Hire
>>somebody to help if at all possible.
>
> FORTRAN was old when the world was young. Several billion people
> have been born and died since I last used it. But according to
> Wikipedia, FORTRAN itself continues to thrive and prosper. Among
> other things, Wikipedia says
>
> "Since Fortran has been in use for more than fifty years, there is a
> vast body of Fortran in daily use throughout the scientific and
> engineering communities. It is the primary language for some of the
> most intensive supercomputing tasks, such as weather and climate
> modeling, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry,
> computational economics, plant breeding and computational physics.
> Even today, half a century later, many of the floating-point
> benchmarks to gauge the performance of new computer processors are
> still written in Fortran (e.g., CFP2006, the floating-point component
> of the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks)."
>
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