Timeline for Good design for modular computational physics code in Fortran
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:29 | comment | added | Jannis Teunissen | A study from the late 1980s has little to do with modern Fortran, which is a great language for scientific computing! | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | John R. Strohm | A suggestion: Before you go too far down this road, it might be worthwhile to consider carefully the decision to write this in Fortran in 2016. In the late 1980s, one of my previous employers did a study, writing a 6DOF simulation in PASCAL rather than FORTRAN, to see what the costs and benefits might be. They discovered that the improvements in productivity, readability, and maintainability VASTLY outweighed the few percent loss is raw speed. Last I heard, they'd sworn an oath never to write another simulation in FORTRAN. PASCAL was That Much Better. There are other options. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 13:28 | answer | added | david.pfx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 13:19 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 13:14 | history | asked | Jannis Teunissen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |