It is too easy for the scientists and engineers to write their own data reduction software in it.

Are you implying that scientists and engineers shouldn't write their own code (and CFD, numerical relativity, etc are most emphatically not data reduction software; they're models)?

If so, I suggest that CS majors start getting better backgrounds in physics, mathematics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry. Very many of them do not have the basic tools needed to write or maintain these kinds of code, and if a CS graduate can't manage ODE, let alone PDE, they can't even have a sensible conversation about Navier-Stokes, NRQM, or QCD (not that I can have a sensible conversation about the latter two.)

By the way, it's not FORTRAN; it's Fortran. It has been for about 20 years, since X3J3 finished the F90 standard

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e(π√−1) = −1

In reply to Re^4: End of Native Code? by swampyankee
in thread End of Native Code? by Ace128

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