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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. Intellectual Fortress Commentary by namtro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Robert O'Callahan (a core Mozilla developer) had some fairly insightful comments on Fortress a couple of days ago I personally found interesting...