On 2013-11-01, William Ray Wing <w...@mac.com> wrote: > Actually, FORTRAN is probably responsible for more CPU cycles being > executed even today than most other languages. If you think about > the fact that most large scientific simulation codes (weather > forecasting, combustion modeling, finite-element modeling and so on), > are still FORTRAN based, and that those are the codes that occupy > multi-hundred-thousand-core petaflop class supper computers for weeks > on end, you have to respect its longevity.
IIRC, some of the scientific computing libraries I used to use daily in Python data-crunching programs are still written in FORTRAN. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
