Regarding http://www.fortranstatement.com/ :
Jace is a colleague of mine and has strong opinions. His viewpoint on Fortran
is his own and does not necessarily reflect that of Cray or its employees.
This morning, I forwarded him the comments on this list up to that point.
Later, we had a short conversation in the lunch room about the list
discussion. He says he announced the URL to only 4 people, so it is
interesting to see where it has been picked up. He has many friends in the
weather/climate-modeling community, so obviously it was CC'd around there.
He is not making any argument in favor of C or C++ -- I would put him more in
the camp of resisting new language features when they make optimization more
difficult. But he can speak for himself and he mentioned that he will
probably write a FAQ or more clarifications in a few days.
I did comment to him that using "FORTRAN" rather than Fortran could trigger
strong reactions here based on years of f66 being used unfairly as a straw man
in CS departments long after the f77, f90 and f95 standards were adopted.
For myself, I have to deal with a vendor code with 1M lines of Fortran, mostly
in f66-style, and I would rather they modernized rather than abandoned the
language.
Ted
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