I wonder: is there any reason beyond sheer curiosity* to learn Fortran in 2025? Not being snarky, genuinely curious about what Fortran brings to the table.
* Nothing wrong with that as a reason, of course
* Nothing wrong with that as a reason, of course
Fortran in Modern Scientific Computing: An Unexpected Comeback - https://medium.com/@stack1/fortran-in-modern-scientific-comp...
5 Reasons Why Fortran is Still Used - https://www.matecdev.com/posts/why-fortran-still-used.html
Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra? - https://loiseaujc.github.io/posts/blog-title/fortran_vs_pyth...
I take back everything i said about FORTRAN - https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1745542049284423973
Modern Fortran online tutorial - https://wvuhpc.github.io/Modern-Fortran/
The trickiest part of really learning Fortran today is that it is hard to define what the language is, apart from the practical definition imposed by what its seven or so surviving compilers accept and how they interpret it. There are near-universally portable features that are not part of the ISO standard; there are standard features that are not at all portable, or not available at all anywhere. So what one should know as “Fortran” is its reasonably portable intersection of features across multiple compilers, and there isn’t a good practical book that will teach you that.
0 - https://docs.open-mpi.org/en/main/developers/bindings.html#f...