re: #331 Walter L. Newton

Most languages are only as good as the programmer. You can make Fortran as bullet proof as any other computer language if you are a programmer who knows what he/she is doing.

Granted, in Fortran, it may take much more time to get from A to Z, but if you have buggy Fortran code, that’s because you have a bad programmer.

There is no reason that programs being used for live data modeling should be shot full of holes. You can’t blame the language. You can blame the organization and the programmers and the internal audits and reviews.

That’s the bottom line.

Can Fortran even calculate complex Matrix numbers? Me thinks it will throw an exception…. This is one of the most complex mathematical models known to man..
A simple language that knows how to add 2+2 isn’t needed here..
Do you think Lawrence Livermore Lab uses Fortran to compute a Nuclear reaction?
1. I don’t care about millions of lines of legacy code
2. I don’t care if Scientists are used to using old school compilers
3. I want to spend Billions to upgrade and give them modern tools
4. Unless I work at Wal-Mart and need to know Inventory levels..Don’t talk to me about Fortran…
5. 99.9% of all computer programs in the world are Not written in Fortran
There is a reason for that…It’s an old shit compiler
*wink*