(j3.2006) Units of measurement in Fortran

[Rasmussen, Craig E]

I know of now one using Fortress in my community.  Chapel had some initial interest but I've been told there is little to no interest in moving from Fortran to Chapel either.

If there is a drift away from Fortran it is to C++.  Three arguments I've heard for converting to C++ are: 1. That's what young programmers know;  2.  There is a lack of tools for Fortran; and 3. Fortran is slow to support the latest hardware (like GPUs).

-craig

On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Keith Bierman wrote:

> Well you'll note their big bang was 2006 and five years later they don't seem to have much traction
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 22:06 -0700, Keith Bierman wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Van Snyder <van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>       I was an official reviewer for DoD-1, which became Ada.  I
>>>       tried in about 1981-1983 to convince DoD to include units in
>>>       Strawman, then in Woodenman, then in Tinman, then in Steelman,
>>>       then in Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue, then in Ada when it
>>>       finally had a name.  Colonel Whittaker said "Huh?"...
>>> 
>>> http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/faq/index.html
>>> 
>>> But it's obviously not Fortran.next
>> 
>> Interesting.  It seems that Fortress has incorporated, and is being
>> praised for incorporating, at least two things that I have been
>> advocating for Fortran for a very long time: physical units and
>> dimensions (although this is not entirely a static problem), and
>> explicit fork-join constructs.
>> 
>> It seems that the thundering herd of "new" ideas is poised once again to
>> leave Fortran in the dust.
>> 
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