Questions from a Fortran HPC Webinar

[Federchen]

@FortranFan

@Federchen

… it’s a little bit confusing because I am using (my own) different naming rules for the language …

@Federchen , please don’t take this wrongly - it’s more than a “little bit confusing”, there is the risk of it being considerably misleading if other readers start taking your terms such as “Coarray Fortran” and “Fortran classic” seriously.

Serial and parallel aspects are parts of the same single standard for Fortran and that is a significant positive for Fortran leading toward legitimate claims Fortran is a multiparadigm and multipurpose language with native support for parallel and concurrent programming paradigms even as its long and rich legacy and its impression among the global computing Community is with procedural and serial applications.

It’s far better for Fortran the public discourse be about the Fortran its standard represents.

I strongly suggest to further use the term ‘Coarray Fortran’, especially in the title of papers, also to find appropriate results when people are searching for coarray programming.

Several questions of section B appear to be based on wrong assumptions about the Fortran language; Something is already going wrong here.

To describe the Fortran programming language to others, we should be open-minded and honest: From a programmer’s point of view, Coarray Fortran is a completely different type of programming language.