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Numeric computations and scientific computing are now highly multidisciplinary and they involve a lot of cross-fertilization and collaboration, as you know. I think the Wikipedia page on Fortran got it correct with its description, 'Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.' And it summarizes Fortran as 'multi-paradigm: structured, imperative (procedural, object-oriented), generic.' Fortran is now also a parallel programming language - cheers! When you say 'general-purpose', what domains do you want Fortran to be used in? And as part of this, what features would you like to see added? When you say 'general-purpose', what domains do you want Fortran to be used in? And as part of this, what features would you like to see asked: But if I want to write numerical code, Fortran is a much better language than C++ (easier to write, read and for compilers to optimize), and I would like it to stay that way. If I want to write web servers, then Python, Go, or other languages are much better also. If I want to write compilers, C++ is a better language (and so I chose C++ for LFortran). My view is that I want Fortran to be strong for array oriented scientific computing. That may be the current reality with Fortran, but almost everyone who have worked on its language design and continue to do so will greatly dislike being reduced as such and would very much want Fortran to be seen as a general-purpose language. Rather, it is a domain specific language for array oriented scientific computing. Having such a vision will help us guide which proposals and features we should prioritize and also help us design all the features to work well in #2 (comment) you mentioned:įortran is not a general-purpose language. The goal should be to design the language features well, so that we do not end up with lots of orthogonal features that do not play well together. In that case, we might consider something like #58.

Then there are a lot of features that should be implemented in a way to play well together, such as: #44, #45 and then there are features that are not needed, such as #58, because one can achieve the same thing with templates and strong concepts / interfaces.Īs another example, let's say we do not want generic programming. Then the two features should be formulated in a way so that it allows us to write all the things we want and that they work well together. I would like the community and the committee to formulate a long term vision what features we would like to work towards in Fortran and how they work together, and consequently, which features we do not want.Īs an example, let's say that we would like to have some form of templates and exceptions.

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