I just find it silly when C programmers question why one use Fortran in 2014.
The more interresting question is why anyone use C in 2014. It's a language with
3 main design requirements:
- be easily compileable by a compiler that had only 2k of memory
- be able to make PDP11 assembly cross-compileable
- otherwise, delegate most of the work from the compiler to the developers, since developer time was cheaper than CPU time.
None of those requirements are valid in 2014, and it's insanely far behind other languages and current theory on all areas.
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I just find it silly when C programmers question why one use Fortran in 2014. The more interresting question is why anyone use C in 2014. It's a language with 3 main design requirements:
- be easily compileable by a compiler that had only 2k of memory
- be able to make PDP11 assembly cross-compileable
- otherwise, delegate most of the work from the compiler to the developers, since developer time was cheaper than CPU time.
None of those requirements are valid in 2014, and it's insanely far behind other languages and current theory on all areas.