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* No templates (would come in very handy for some routines which handle different numerical types). * Documentation (including books) just isn't good compared to what's available for C/C++/Python, etc. * Linking to C/C++ is possible, but painful with the binding support. * Available libraries are hit and miss, particularly outside the numerical area.

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I've hit several (still unfixed) compiler bugs and my code contains some terrible workarounds.

* Some of the compilers are very immature (gfortran), if using any fairly recent features (e.g. You'll have to constantly strip spaces off the ends of strings to even print them. You can now have resizeable strings but using them is very painful (and buggy in gfortran). I just wish I had something like a Python dictionary built in.

* Missing standard data structures, like hash maps. I don't recommend it personally unless you're working with other big fortran codes. It's missing quite a few features found in more recent languages. It's ok when dealing with numbers or matrices, but very painful in many respects. Never or ever? I have to use it for a work project. So I think my prediction is turning out to be pretty good. Now, Fortran is still dominant in high performance scientific computing, C++ has a niche in particle physics, but Julia is, in fact, making rapid headway across a wide variety of disciplines. The last sentence of the article, which is from 2014, refers back to the epigram, and predicts that Julia may be the language that finally supplants Fortran for use in science and engineering. He was prescient: Fortran 90 included radical advances to the language, but it remained, pretty much, the scientific programming language, and was still called Fortran. He is saying that it will continue to evolve, but no matter what it will look like in another 30 years, it will still be the language, and will still be called Fortran. By 1982 it had evolved significantly from its origins 30 years earlier, but was still called Fortran. At the time, Fortran was the language for numerical/scientific computing. Since you honored me by referencing my article, I’ll offer my interpretation. I just can’t see a way that Fortran really fits in the comment - what was the punchline supposed to be? More to the point, Hoare’s statement was a deliberately squishy social comment and not a rigorous computer-science comment, which makes it harder for outsiders to “objectively” understand his point. I am a Young Person (thirties) so this era of computing is before my time. Was he commenting on its comparatively simple design, compared to “flashier” languages like Pascal? Was he just noting its ubiquity in science / government work? Or was Fortran at the time considered a buzzword, something cool-sounding to rope ignorant managers into approving tech projects? The quote is from 1982, which seems a bit too late for any “Fortran juggernaut” jokes to have been relevant, and even in 1982 I would have guessed that Fortran was considered a bit old-fashioned. I have seen this quote thrown around a lot and have never had the proper context to understand what Hoare was getting at. With the initial prototype usable for developing libraries, and many already converting their existing libraries to be fpm compatible, it didn’t seem quite so daunting a task as it otherwise would have.įirst year of Fortran-Lang (2020-12). It was thus that we decided we would rewrite fpm in Fortran, enabling a larger portion of its intended users to also be contributors. But everybody had significant experience (or at least interest) in Fortran. Most people were not familiar with Haskell, making that a significant barrier to their being able to contribute. It was very quickly that many interested in using fpm also expressed some interest in helping with its development. Here are some articles by some of the contributors:įortran Package Manager's First Birthday (2020-12?).

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