[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >Don't know fortran.  Find little reason to use fortran for modern
> >development except for the possibility that on some platforms the
> >fortran compiler is better optimized that the C compiler.
> 
>   ...which seems to be just about every HPC platform out there.
> 
>   Modern FORTRAN is just as well-suited to modern development as modern 
> C.  It has evolved from a general-purpose language (though with a 
> slight scientific bent) into a pretty much HPC-specific language, and 
> does that stuff very well.

And of course, a related question is, where is the broke person supposed
to get their hands on modern fortran other than from Intel?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd