Re: just how bad is Fortran?

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "rick" == Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu> writes:
[...]
    > I'm familiar with Fortran, C, C++, etc., and the coding for
    > fortran is far more efficient for what i'm doing: it comes
    > down to applying functions to arrays.  I also may have the
    > world's only project that really calls for an Object
    > Fortran :)

There is an article that you may find interesting on the relative
merits of Fortran, C, C++, and Python at
<URL:http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran/fort-alternative.html>.
Although I haven't done any large-scale coding in python, it is
object-oriented and has more or less replaced Fortran for much of
my small-scale numerical work.  Jeff Templon has also collected
some information about using Fortran codes under Linux at
<URL:http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran.html>.

    > The question is really whether the fortran tools available
    > are good enough for real work.

There is a good amount of real work being done with Fortran under
Linux.  The Hermes collaboration is doing a lot of serious number
crunching with Fortran ported to a Linux farm.  Wolfgang Wander's
"f77 Problem Page" at
<URL:http://www-hermes.desy.de/ww/f77prob.html> discusses some
ways to avoid certain pitfalls that he and Hermes came across.
The f77reorder script mentioned earlier in this thread is
discussed there.

There are also a number of web sites that have information in the
general category of "Linux in science".  Many of them include
discussions of porting Fortran codes to Linux.  I have a few
links in that category collected at
<URL:http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~miller/linux>. 

Regards, Mike


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