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Foil 75 Why build on existing languages - especially Fortran/C

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. 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/Cimplemented 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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