On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:01:56 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > > > Steven D'Aprano 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
Yes one can argue so But one can also argue that this is a 1990s viewpoint http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
