Comment Still Alive. (Score 2) 745
I use Fortran 90. That is, I port Fortran 90.
My beef with Fortran 90 is that it is very unportable. Every compiler follows the standard to some extent, and then has its own extensions. Many, but not all, support some obsolescent Fortran 77 syntax. Your best bet, if you want to achieve portability, is to use Intel's Fortran 90 compiler; it is the strictest.
As for Fortran 90's use, it is used very much by scientific and mathematical types who do parallel programming. I'm working this summer at a ``high-performance computing'' lab, and of three scientific applications I've looked at, all three have been written in Fortran 90. I can understand why. Dynamic matrices are *so* much easier. But if you write or find a good C++ class for dynamic matrices, then you might not need Fotran 90.
My beef with Fortran 90 is that it is very unportable. Every compiler follows the standard to some extent, and then has its own extensions. Many, but not all, support some obsolescent Fortran 77 syntax. Your best bet, if you want to achieve portability, is to use Intel's Fortran 90 compiler; it is the strictest.
As for Fortran 90's use, it is used very much by scientific and mathematical types who do parallel programming. I'm working this summer at a ``high-performance computing'' lab, and of three scientific applications I've looked at, all three have been written in Fortran 90. I can understand why. Dynamic matrices are *so* much easier. But if you write or find a good C++ class for dynamic matrices, then you might not need Fotran 90.
