-On [20080105 11:21], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Why convert? Modern Fortran is an object oriented, structured language >with the singular advantage that it can run old Fortran programs.
With all due respect to Fortran but I find the syntax to be utterly horrendous. :) Furthermore, the code is not really heavy number crunching in that it seems to warrant explicit use in Fortran. At most it takes about 2 seconds on a current day PC to calculate some of these values. Furthermore it currently has a dependency on the Visual Numerics IMSL library. For just some calculations to warrant the cost of both this library and a Fortran compiler seems a bit excessive. Given we use Matlab in-house, next to C# (and perhaps F# in the future), and some Python it makes more sense to stick to your domain-specific knowledge rather than maintaining some relic from the past. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ For ever, brother, hail and farewell... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
