Fortran

...that people are digging into the code that was released, it kind of looks like they may have been trying to hide their embarrassing skills at FORTRAN more than anything else. I suspect that it wasn't so much a hack but an accidental leak,...

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...the extraordinary nature of the CRU code is Dave Freer's analysis. Highlights include counting the number of lines in a file by using Fortran to call the Unix wc command, to write to another file with a hard-coded predefined filename, then...

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...my programming background has something to do with it, but iirc I was writing in English long before I started writing in BASIC (or FORTRAN, for that matter). ArthurKirkland says: I believe this issue was batted about a few months ago in...

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...perspective - since we're using an off-the-shelf product that isn't documented sufficiently to say that. Why this wasn't coded up in Fortran I don't know - time pressures perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there...

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...compiler to work within the CUDA parallel programming environment that Nvidia created for its graphics cards and co-processors; this Fortran has been in beta testing for about three months. There are projects that have pulled the CUDA...

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...of CUDA." CUDA is the parallel programming environment that allows C programs to call the GPU to feed it math. It still needs C++ and Fortran hooks, by the way, but hopefully these will be ready with Fermi. If AMD gets error correction on...

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...language and building into a major force in the industry. Sun Microsystems, which succeeded with Java, has had less success with a would-be Fortran successor called Fortress. But Go has some assets most languages don't. First, the...

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...syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older. Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available...

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...the present indeed. One of the things I do wonder about though, is when I got interested in the field, the mainstream was probably Fortran and COBOL and even C was fairly new at that time. The functional programming pioneers spoke of an order...

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Fortran development team leader John Backus, left, and computer scientist John Cocke, circa 1966, on a souvenir matchbook. 1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three...

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