14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
3:33 p.m.
All this time FORTRAN has survived. Still a great
language for number
crunching, it's withstood attempts by X3J3 to make it a completely opaque
mess of features. By and large, if you write a program in FORTRAN IV or
77, you can find a compiler for just about every machine ever made.
Also, so many models are written in FORTRAN already - models that work, so
why reinvent the wheel?
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org