Does Fortran 2025 provide pointers and make it possible to dereference an invalid pointer? If not, then I guess that’s one reason to use it instead of C.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:51:15PM -0800, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk > wrote: > >> FORTRAN was a dead end, both in syntax (line-oriented, line numbers) and > >> semantics (common blocks, static arrays, very poor string support). > > Fortran 2025, the sixth edition, is rather different from 1956. > > So what, though? "The Intel® Fortran Compiler 2025" just uses the LLVM > backend, as does flang, the other contender, so the resulting code is going > to perform much the same as anything else using LLVM. > > The only good reason to use Fortran today is if you have a large legacy > codebase in Fortran, or are targetting a platform which is not supported by > LLVM. Arguably the same applies to C. > > A bad reason to pick Fortran or C is having been taught it at school and > then making no effort to update one's skills at any point in the > intervening > decades. > >
