Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[arnold]

Me:
> > An interesting tidbit I came across:
> >
> > http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/09/24/fortran-is-more-popular-than-ever-intel-makes-it-fast/

Erik:
> by interesting, one assumes your mean, makes you want to
> give up computing as you now realize it's an exercize in
> regressing at moore's law speeds.
>
> - erik

I thought it was an interesting tidbit that HPC people are going back
to Fortran from C++.

Ron, care to comment?

Erik, maybe dig out the V7 ratfor and bring it into the 21st century
for Plan 9?  (:-)

Arnold

Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[erik quanstrom]

> I thought it was an interesting tidbit that HPC people are going back
> to Fortran from C++.
>
> Ron, care to comment?
>
> Erik, maybe dig out the V7 ratfor and bring it into the 21st century
> for Plan 9?  (:-)

i'll put it on the list ....

actually, i did my time in the dusty decks.  don't think i care for
a reprise.  in that case we had .c4 and .f4, which were c and fortran
decorated with m4 macros.  basically, it allowed us to extend type
checking into fortran.

the system was diaboliclly brilliant.  it was just enough to keep
and old program going, yet not enough to aliviate the suffering
of its maintainers.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[ron minnich]

A guy I know at LANL just mandated C++ for all codes, no more Fortran.

There are no hard and fast rules.

That article is an advertisement, so treat it as such :)

ron

Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[Bruce Ellis]

ratfor++ to the rescue!

On 2 December 2011 17:39, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> A guy I know at LANL just mandated C++ for all codes, no more Fortran.
>
> There are no hard and fast rules.
>
> That article is an advertisement, so treat it as such :)
>
> ron
>



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Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[Noah Evans]

>From PJ Plauger when asked about Ratfor:

Q: What's Ratfor?
PJ: To eat cheese.

Noah



On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> ratfor++ to the rescue!
>
> On 2 December 2011 17:39, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A guy I know at LANL just mandated C++ for all codes, no more Fortran.
>>
>> There are no hard and fast rules.
>>
>> That article is an advertisement, so treat it as such :)
>>
>> ron
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)
>

Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[Bruce Ellis]

Only the cheese stands alone, Unix sup TM.

I wish I had the poster.

On 3 December 2011 00:46, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
> From PJ Plauger when asked about Ratfor:
>
> Q: What's Ratfor?
> PJ: To eat cheese.
>
> Noah
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ratfor++ to the rescue!
>>
>> On 2 December 2011 17:39, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> A guy I know at LANL just mandated C++ for all codes, no more Fortran.
>>>
>>> There are no hard and fast rules.
>>>
>>> That article is an advertisement, so treat it as such :)
>>>
>>> ron
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)
>>
>



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Re: [9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[erik quanstrom]

On Thu Dec  1 14:43:46 EST 2011, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> An interesting tidbit I came across:
>
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/09/24/fortran-is-more-popular-than-ever-intel-makes-it-fast/

by interesting, one assumes your mean, makes you want to
give up computing as you now realize it's an exercize in
regressing at moore's law speeds.

- erik

[9fans] Fortran growing in absolute number of users

[Aharon Robbins]

An interesting tidbit I came across:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/09/24/fortran-is-more-popular-than-ever-intel-makes-it-fast/

Arnold