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Foil 29 Why build on existing languages - especially Fortran / C

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Experience of users
Good sequential and node compilers exist
Migration of existing codes
Hard to build a new language as need all the features/libraries of Fortran / C implemented well. This is why one uses Fortran 90 and not APL
Fortran and C are good (OK) for a class of applications

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