Julia: Fast as Fortran, Beautiful as Python

[FortranFan]

@ivanpribec

E.g. we could have a quadratic f(x) = x^2 + px + q f(x)=x2+px+qf(x) = x^2 + px + q , where p pp and q qq are the parameters. Using a Fortran 77 statement function (and implicit typing ) this may have been written as:

The following conforms to the standard too!

      REAL P, Q, F, X, Y
      PARAMETER(P=-4.,Q=2.)
      F(X) = X**2 + P*X + Q
      READ *, X
      Y = F(X)
      END

[FortranFan]

@certik and the Moderator team: perhaps this thread should be closed and archived?

[certik]

Yes, let’s close it. We can start a new thread on the history of spoken languages, which is very interesting. But maybe not the main topic for the Fortran forum, but some dedicated thread I guess would be fine.

[awvwgk]

I removed the off-topic post from this thread as well.