Fortran is a long-lived programming language for scientific computing
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Subroutines with same name [migrated]
I am trying to have same name for two subroutines but am getting the error:
gfortran gshapes.f08 gshapes_utest.f08 -o gshapes_utest.x
gshapes_utest.f08:53.41:
call ellips%set_ellipse_corner (crnr1, ...
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How can I combine C/Fortran with JavaScript?
I'm working on a project where I need heavy numerical calculations to be real-time visualized with something flexible like D3.js. Are there frameworks out there that would let me painlessly achieve ...
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How can I explain object-oriented programming to someone who's only coded in Fortran 77?
My mother did her college thesis in Fortran, and now (over a decade later) needs to learn c++ for fluids simulations. She is able to understand all of the procedural programming, but no matter how ...
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule, does every large project include a Lisp interpreter?
Greenspun's tenth rule (actually the only rule) states that:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ...
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Converting Fortran 77 code to C#
I'm trying to convert a Fortan77 program to C#. I have a subroutine with about 650 lines of code and horrific GOTO statements all over the place. I'm having a lot of trouble even starting to visualise ...
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Where can I find a punched card simulator? [duplicate]
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Learning to program on punchcards
I wasn't born in the era, but I'd like to experience writing a program with punch cards.
Does anyone know of a program or an online ...
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Why no fortran standard library?
To be a language focused on mathematics and scientific computing, I am always baffled by the total lack of useful mathematical routines in the Fortran standard library. One would expect it to be ...
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Do Fortran compilers really generate faster code than C compilers?
When I was studying in the university I often heard the idea that Fortran compilers produced faster code than C compilers for an equivalent program.
The key reasoning went like this: a Fortran ...
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How can a large, Fortran-based number crunching codebase be modernized?
A friend in academia asked me for advice (I'm a C# business application developer).
He has a legacy codebase which he wrote in Fortran in the medical imaging field. It does a huge amount of number ...
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Teaching programming (languages) in central/northern Europe
I hope this question is not going to be off-topic; in case you think there'd be a better place to ask it, please let me know.
Anyway, I'm currently doing my PhD working in bioinformatics. I would, ...
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What keywords are important to speedup the code in C++?
I'm porting to C++ and adding a lot of functionality to a numerical application written in Fortran 77. While I hate F77, I have to admit that the thing goes very fast. Now, I'm implementing ...
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Design of an evaluator object for propagation and IO of results
We are having a discussion about design. Keep into account this is fortran, so we can't be too smart. We have the following classes: Application, System, Calculator, CalculatorSimple, ...
