Fortran, Numerics, and MacOS: Strange Bedfellows?

The answer to that question is: Not really. You might not think of Fortran when you think of modern programming, and modern operating systems. But despite it not being the flavor of the moment, there are good reasons not to count Fortran out. In addition to there being huge codebases already in existence that no one feels any need to rewrite, Fortran is still quite a strong choice for high performance computing and numerics. Jon Erickson talks to Wood Lotz, president of Absoft, about the IMSL Fortran Numerical Library, recently ported to MacOS.

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