[J3] Performance Portability and Fortran: Making Fortran cool again

[Bill Long]

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 12:55 AM, Damian Rouson via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> Tread lightly in this territory -- especially in the DOE community.  There are very influential people who will have daggers drawn the minute you try to say anything positive about Fortran.  It gets religious quickly

Absolutely. Some have invested their whole career and reputation on making C++ the only acceptable option.  It is a very sensitive issue.

Cheers,
Bill



> and most in the community are unaware of the latest developments in Fortran but are very aware that the compilers have not kept up with the standards.   Citing fancy new features that your compiler doesn't support won't get you very far in the DOE community.  They know that story all too well and it's at least one of the reasons so much of the DOE community has moved away from Fortran.  They had work to get done and couldn't wait for compiler support to come along. 

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