[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Joshua D Boyd 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?

   Software for real computers is generally free...I shouldn't have to 
tell you that.

   But if you're looking for commercial stuff, I'm sure it can be found. 
;)

       -Dave

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