14 Jan
2025
14 Jan
'25
9:26 a.m.
Does Fortran 2025 provide pointers and make it possible to dereference an
invalid pointer? If not, then I guess that’s one reason to use it instead
of C.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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.
On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, Joseph S.
Barrera III via cctalk
wrote:
FORTRAN
was a dead end, both in syntax (line-oriented, line numbers) and
semantics (common blocks, static arrays, very poor string support).
Fortran 2025, the sixth edition, is rather different from 1956.