(j3.2006) HPCWire article (by Mike Heroux) discusses the advancement and future of Fortran

[Tom Clune]

I have a telecon with him at 11:30 where I?ll let him know that as a member of J3, I can no longer speak to him.   :-)


> On Jan 15, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Bill Long <longb at cray.com> wrote:
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> I saw that, and have already started a list of replies to send to Mike personally.   Particularly annoying that he still uses the non-portable argument about coarrays after all the work the gfortran people did.   But, keep in mind that Mike is a leader in the C++ religion and is hardly unbiased on this topic.  No surprise that once C++ 2020 arrives all will be fabulous. 
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> His binding to C++ does lead him to argue that ?new? languages (i.e. not C, C++, Fortran) are unlikely to get traction.  On that score, I think he is likely to get wider agreement. 
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> Cheers,
> Bill
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> On Jan 15, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Tom Clune <Thomas.L.Clune at nasa.gov> wrote:
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>> http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/14/24151/
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