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From: Jay Martin <jaymmartin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/07/29
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Pat Rogers wrote:
> 
> Juan Carlos Gil Montoro wrote in message <35BF51A2.B199FDFA@gmv.es>...
> >Pat Rogers wrote:
> >>
> >> [Big Snip]
> >>
> >> That's why I'm learning Java now, and Eiffel and C++ in the past.  They all
> >> contribute something to make one a better developer.  I need to take another
> >> look at Fortran, because it sure isn't the Fortran IV I used in the old
> >> days!
> >>
> >
> >  You'll be happy you did.
> >  Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 are modern languages unbeatable (IMHO) in
> >their niche.
> 
> Since you mention it, what would you say is Fortran's niche that the language is
> unbeatable in filling?  (Serious request for opinion, not yet another language
> flame war ignition.)

I believe Fortran (i.e. High Performance Fortran) is king for
scientific array calculations on massively parallel
machines.  These compilers will take a program
that does calculations on arrays and generate code
that distributes the arrays across all the processors
and efficiently schedules data communication between
the processors.  I don't know if there is a
viable "High Performance C/C++" in the market yet.

Jay