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- From: i2041101@rzphy1.rz.tu-bs.de (Paulini)
- Subject: Re: Welcome to HPFF
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.092952.11572@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Keywords: HPFF, High Performance Fortran
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- Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, Germany
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:29:52 GMT
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- In article <Bsy43C.9BG@rice.edu>, chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel) writes:
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- |> Welcome to the High Performance Fortran Forum!
- |>
- |>
- |> WHAT IS HPFF?
- |> =============
- |>
- |> ..... deleted ....
- |>
- |> Our intent is to develop extensions to Fortran which
- |> provide support for high performance programming on a wide variety of
- |> machines, including massively parallel SIMD and MIMD systems and
- |> vector processors. Some of the topics considered will be
- |>
- |> ..... deleted ....
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- Stop it! I'm programming now for several years scientific applications
- in FORTRAN 77 because I must do it, due to libraries and already existing
- programs in FORTRAN. Compared to other languages (even to cryptic C - Codes)
- FORTRAN is not recommendable as a programming language at all. It is merely
- a collection of erratic ideas and lacks a real conception. In my opinion it is
- not useful to make any extensions or "improvements" to the language (this also
- holds true for Fortran 90). A better way seems to me to design a comptetely
- new language or to use an existing better (like C, Ada, Modula or whatever).
- And then to decide no longer to support programming in FORTRAN but to use
- existing FORTRAN codes in the new language in a portable way (e.g. by defining
- an interface or a standard linking method or something similar).
-
- The situation now is that people who are used to a 'real' programming language
- (mostly C) only write programs in FORTRAN if there is no other way ... like me.
- If in some years most of the numeric software is available in C, all new
- numeric programmers won't code in FORTRAN and many of the old will convert too.
-
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