Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat May 10 14:31:11 EDT 2014
On 5/10/2014 9:42 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.9805.1399597367.18130.python-list at python.org>,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> Obsolete and Legacy? Fortran still receives regular standards updates
>> (currently 2008, with the next revision due in 2015).
>
> Ars Technica article a couple of days ago, about Fortran, and what is
> likely to replace it:
What might *possibly* replace it.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mr54p96
The article is deficient in that it ignores the 20-year-old combination
of python with fortran and the facts that the combination gives fortran
a repl loop and that this combination has already somewhat replaced bare
fortran.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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