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lordgrenville on Oct 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

Plus on the topic of Data Science, R is written in a mixture of FORTRAN and C!

Annatar on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

Yes, the core of R is written in Fortran because short of writing assembler code by hand, Fortran compilers generate the fastest machine code.

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