On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <536c3049$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for >> accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writing new >> applications. There may be niches where that does not hold, where people >> are actively writing new applications in Fortran, but they are niches. >> Today, Fortran is rarely used for general purpose computing, updated >> standards or no updated standards. > > Oddly enough, my current use of Fortran is via Python. The scipy and > statsmodels libraries use Fortran routines under the covers.
I'd like to argue that you're not using Fortran, then. You're making use of it in the same way that I might make use of Ruby, PHP, and Perl when I browse the web - the other end is running those languages, ergo I am depending on them for my information, but I'm not actually seeing, much less writing, any code in those languages. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
