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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982 Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Oct 15, 2017 | Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by dralley | 373 | 293 |
| Dec 18, 2016 | Why physicists still use Fortran by urs | 205 | 211 |
