Sun Releases Fortran Replacement as OSS

sproketboy writes "Sun Microsystems has released an alpha version of a new programming language called Fortress to eventually replace Fortran for high performance scientific computing tasks. Fortress was designed specifically for multi-core processors and is published under the BSD license."

Comments

Re:What's it look like?

[gardyloo]

program Hello_world

### The following is the canonical 'Hello World' program implemented in fortress ###

load fortran77
      print *,"Hello World"

fortress.obfuscate

end program Hello_world

Cue Fortrain Jokes

[locokamil]

"God is REAL unless declared INTEGER"

"Q: What will the scientific programming language of 2050 look like? A: No one knows, but it will be called FORTRAN."

"CS without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard."

"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice."

"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."

I'd actually venture that FORTRAN has more jokes about it than C. I for one welcome our FORTRESS-joke-making overlords.

Re:Doesn't make a difference.

[celardore]

Yep, programming languages advance by evolution, not intelligent design.

Thanks for shattering my illusions. I thought programming languages were as they were, are, and always will be. I'm going to sue you.

Re:What's it look like?

[Goaway]

And most monitors will fail to display unambiguously, in any straightforward and reliable way.

You may not have noticed, but cutting-edge monitors nowadays are capable of displaying graphics, and not just text.