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Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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It's definitely not a dead language – a new Fortran front-end has recently been accepted into the LLVM project, joining Clang. So LLVM's only in-tree supported languages (excluding the various IRs) will be C, C++, Objective-C, and Fortran. It had been scheduled for merge into the LLVM monorepo 2 days ago, but has been delayed pending some additional architecture review.

Latin was dead long before it stopped being used in written works. It died when it stopped being spoken and stopped changing. I don't know if Fortran would be considered dead by the "no longer adapting" definition, but that it's still in use isn't proof it's alive.

Latin never died or stopped changing or stopped being spoken; it is still spoken by about a billion people today — they just stopped calling it “Latin” at some point.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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After Fortran got its array syntax 29 years ago, there aren't many languages that you can use to write array-manipulating code like in Fortran. Maybe just Julia and NumPy?

What are the highlights of Fortran's array manipulation capabilities?

Well, things like... you have 2, 2 dimensional arrays of the same size, A and B.

You want to make a new array, where each cell in A is added to the same cell in B. So you are going to do a loop over 2 variables, right?

in FORTRAN the code is...

C = A + B

in Julia the code is C = A .+ B

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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How is it not? Someone said something about fighter jets being written in Fortran. Someone corrected them saying they aren't, but they are modeled using Fortran. I tried to add to the conversation by saying what they were written in assuming that would also be of interest to the person who made the original comment. I'm sorry this has perturbed you.

Ah. Thanks for the explanation.

Lol no biggie. Your bio seem pretty awesome btw! What technologies have you used to do all that?

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Let’s all get good at Fortran in 3 Months get those cushy six figure salary jobs those Fortran devs make building web apps, sounds easy enough.

brb starting my venture-backed FORTRAN coding school

You joke, but a lot of places are still looking for Fortran devs.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Latin was dead long before it stopped being used in written works. It died when it stopped being spoken and stopped changing. I don't know if Fortran would be considered dead by the "no longer adapting" definition, but that it's still in use isn't proof it's alive.

Latin never died or stopped changing or stopped being spoken; it is still spoken by about a billion people today — they just stopped calling it “Latin” at some point.

I'm ignorant. Who speaks Latin today under a different name?

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Latin never died or stopped changing or stopped being spoken; it is still spoken by about a billion people today — they just stopped calling it “Latin” at some point.

I'm ignorant. Who speaks Latin today under a different name?

Speakers of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and various other lesser-known languages and dialects.

All of these are directly descended from Latin in exactly the same way that today's English is descended from 1900s English, just over a longer period.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Looks vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. ( https://fortran.io/static/model.html )

If they've haven't got that right I would be sceptical what other insecurities are present.

Yes this brand new Fortran web framework may not be suitable for production use yet.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Should have been called Fortran on Freeways.

Fortran on Funicular :)

That goes well with COBOL on Cogs!

Funicular railway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9J7NsM0Ck

Cog railway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYjj0rwriEA

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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brb starting my venture-backed FORTRAN coding school

You joke, but a lot of places are still looking for Fortran devs.

Link me The Who’s hiring Fortran devs please, I’m slightly bored of React.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

#190

I saw the reference to Ubuntu 14 and thought "what the?" Then I noticed the code hasn't been updated in 3yrs. One question answered but the bigger one remains: Why do we (meaning: me, I) gauge a project by it's recentness? I've written plenty of LOC that are structurally sound that I've not needed to touch up/ improve upon... And as a FORTRAN project you can be pretty sure updates can be glacial but still very viable…

I gauge projects based on recentness: recent for me suggests it's likely buggy, unoptimized and with an unstable interface. Is that what you meant?
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