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I agree with your sentiment as long as scaling is not a blind obesession.

But don't say Fortran as if it's slow, Fortran is still one of the predominant HPC languages :-)



Cue the hoary joke from the 70s:

Q: What will the High Performance Computing language of the 1980's be?

A: I don't know, but it will be called Fortran

That was one of my dad's favorites :)




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