"At present, no language can rival, let alone surpass, Fortran when it comes to implementing long-lived, large-scale, massively-parallel scientific and engineering applications; not even C and C++."
Huh??? A tremendous amount of scientific computing happens in C, C++, and many other languages. I have worked with Fortran, worked with Fortran-heavy labs in academia, and this is just a nonsensical thing to say.
Ctran and Fortran look similar if you ignore much of the flexibility of C and help the optimizer out re memory overlap. Wave the checkbook and you’ll have programmers. Way easier than COBOL.
"At present, no language can rival, let alone surpass, Fortran when it comes to implementing long-lived, large-scale, massively-parallel scientific and engineering applications; not even C and C++."
Huh??? A tremendous amount of scientific computing happens in C, C++, and many other languages. I have worked with Fortran, worked with Fortran-heavy labs in academia, and this is just a nonsensical thing to say.
Ctran and Fortran look similar if you ignore much of the flexibility of C and help the optimizer out re memory overlap. Wave the checkbook and you’ll have programmers. Way easier than COBOL.