[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:51:15PM -0800, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: So what, though? "The Intel® Fortran Compiler 2025" just uses the LLVM backend, as does flang, the other contender, so the resulting code is going to perform much the same as anything else using LLVM. The only good reason to use Fortran today is if you have a large legacy codebase in Fortran, or are targetting a platform which is not supported by LLVM. Arguably the same applies to C. A bad reason to pick Fortran or C is having been taught it at school and then making no effort to update one's skills at any point in the intervening decades.