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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. pointless by oohshiny · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fortress looks decent but wholly pointless. Numerical code these days has to co-exist with large C and C++ libraries and integrated into general purpose applications. Maybe a Fortress-to-JVM and Fortress-to-CLR compiler would be useful, but if Fortress lives in its own, separate world, they might as well not bother. As a language, I think it's unnecessarily complex. Fortran became popular because, as a language, it's dead simple; Fortress isn't.

    Guy, fix Java, or start over with the next version of Java. Fortress is pointless.