On: Why physicists still use Fortran

[srean]

Guy Steele and his group had a really interesting thing going with the language Fortress (name is a nod to Fortran of course, but fortified). It was meant for high productivity as well as high speed (petaflops range). It got shelved after Oracle bought Sun. It was one of the three languages seeded by DARPA funding for high productivity computing

https://java.net/projects/projectfortress/pages/Home

https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/entry/fortress_wrap...

[pjmlp → srean]

> It got shelved after Oracle bought Sun.

Actually the actual real history is little more complex than that.

JuliaCon 2016 (Keynote) | Fortress Features and Lessons Learned | Guy Steele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZD3Scuv02g

It would be good if people on HN would separate a bit the Oracle hate with the facts.

[srean → pjmlp]

The causation was certainly not intentionally implied in my comment. I was stating temporal ordering fact. Hold on to your oracle defense response :)

[nickpsecurity → srean]

Look up ParaSail. It's still in development that Im aware of.