Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:41:54PM +0000, Rupert Swarbrick wrote: > >>I'm growing to hate fortran with a vengeance. And this is F95! > > I'm just curious, why? I know it has a bad repuation, but don't have > any 1st hand experience. I was of the impression that f95 was much > better; what problems remain? > Maybe I'm being unfair, but I've gotten used to C,Java,Perl etc., where whitespace can be used to make the code quite human-readable. I don't wish to start a flame war, but I really believe that new code should _NEVER_ be written in fortran. Even well written (which fortunately the engineering stuff I was working with is), it's a nightmare to follow - blocks of capitals stream across the screen... And, yes, I know that the identifier restrictions have been relaxed in fortran 95, but of course older code doesn't have that. I'm also not really sure of any advantage fortran has over C/C++ - it's only just got pointers, for goodness' sake! That said, if there are arguments for the use of fortran in new code (that aren't to do with interfacing with BLAS/whatever), I'd be interested to hear them - maybe I'm being narrow minded! Rupert P.S., Justin: Sorry for reposting, but I forgot to hit reply all.
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