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On 10/05/2014 00:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2014 22:21:25 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
> following:
>
>> In article <536c3049$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for
>>> accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writing new
>>> applications. There may be niches where that does not hold, where people
>>> are actively writing new applications in Fortran, but they are niches.
>>> Today, Fortran is rarely used for general purpose computing, updated
>>> standards or no updated standards.
>>
>> Oddly enough, my current use of Fortran is via Python.  The scipy and
>> statsmodels libraries use Fortran routines under the covers.
>
> 	To me, that is NOT "use of Fortran"... It is nothing more than the use
> of a /library with a documented calling spec (API)/.
>
> 	That the library was written in Fortran is irrelevant. Especially if
> one is working a VMS system where all the languages had features for
> calling functions written on others (in effect, the equivalent of Python's
> ctypes module, as a general commonality on the system)
>

Oh the joy, a tedious, repetative thread is made infinitely better by 
the mention of three wonderful letters, V, M and S.  What bliss :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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