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Sun Releases Fortran Replacement as OSS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the going-backward-while-moving-forward dept.

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."

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  1. Cue Fortrain Jokes by locokamil · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.