Re: Languages

[glyn@cs.ualberta.ca (Devin Reade)]

>>Funny how things go, Fortran is almost dead, BASIC lives on in lots
> 
>..FORTRAN almost dead??? Don't tell that to the scientific, number-
>crunching community (for whom the language was developed in the first place)
[...]
>The installed program base in this language, just as for COBOL, is simply
>too large for it to die or disappear.

Don't forget that you can achieve much more agressive optimization in
FORTRAN than in C, so it's still the preferred language for numerical
codes.  The company for which I work, Myrias, provides software to do
parallel supercomputing over networked workstations.  There are just
two supported languages, C and FORTRAN, and they are equally popular.
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