First official release of LLVM Flang
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First official release of LLVM Flang
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#2There doesn't appear to be a link to the release notes, it would be nice to know what are the current limitations.
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#3Now someone go convince the C committee to stop trying to turn C into Fortran.
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#4Now someone go convince the C committee to stop trying to turn C into Fortran.
Q from out of the loop: what are you referring to? and if you could enlighten me how that then is a problem?
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#5> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes.
I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
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#6> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes. I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
it's a fairly common usage in numeric computing. If you read, for example, the wikipedia entries for "computational fluid dynamics" you'll see that they consistently speak of "codes" when referring to programs.
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#7> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes. I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
As someone doing research in physics, I’ve noticed this usage before. It seems fairly frequent outside CS [EDIT: and as the sibling comment says, specifically in numerical computing]. From what I’ve gathered, for them ‘code’ has become a count noun, such that ‘a code’ means something like ‘a piece of code’ or even ‘a program’, and the plural ‘codes’ follows from that.
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#8> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes. I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
It's because the types of things people write in Fortran (high performance science codes, for example) tend to be monolithic, single-purpose programs. It comes from a time when a code really was basically one compilation unit (and doing that is such a nice simplification that I support it, for science). With code written for the web, shared through package managers, etc. it makes more sense to use the uncountable noun instead of the countable one.
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#9How compatible is it with the current code bases developped under proprietary compilers ?
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#10> Whilst many alternative programming languages have come and gone, it [Fortran] has regained its popularity for writing high performance codes. I don't understand why sometimes people pluralize "code". It sounds a bit silly but maybe it's just me.
I'm seeing it here for the first time, and from multiple people. Maybe it's specific to the Fortran community?