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Comment by jordemort | Hacker News Reader

The fact that “The State of Fortran” is a paper on arXiv instead of a blog post actually says a lot about the state of Fortran.

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What do you mean? It’s a paper written by several people on the standard committee of who contributed to the draft standard, on which blog would they put it?

Traditionally, these things were published in ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum (or on NAG’s servers for historical reasons). Arxiv is really natural, given the direction scientific and technical publishing is taking. This is a heavy duty language used by scientists and people like mechanical and nuclear engineers. Not the latest JavaScript framework or full stack doodad from Google.

This only speaks to the academic nature of Fortran, and there's nothing wrong about it.

The paper is published and available in early access in IEEE CiSE: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736688

Oh yeah, a blog. Really keeping up with the times there compared to a paper.

I read that as "with all the good and bad that implies". That others didn't... well that's Fortran for you. Or maybe just hackernews.

I didn't even consider it in a good light because it was posted on this site, yes. If it was made positively, I apologize to the OP.

Yeah, I didn't mean it pejoratively, just that it's an indicator that the Fortran community is a very different scene from what you might find around other programming languages that are typically discussed here.

What value does your suggestion have here? I think you might be placing way too much value on a blog post.

Indeed, it isn't something that is only cool for a month or to be embraced by magpie developers.

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