Quant programming languages of 2016? and GPU-wise: CUDA or OpenCL?

[Daniel Duffy]

QUIZ
Which language in the list when taken away would cause world meltdown (and don't say VBA but it's close)?

 

[ExSan]

fortran / basic ?

 

[pingu]

QUIZ
Which language in the list when taken away would cause world meltdown (and don't say VBA but it's close)?

COBOL

 

[Daniel Duffy]

fortran / basic ?

No

 

[Daniel Duffy]

COBOL

yep

 

[Daniel Duffy]

It has been predicted that by the year 2250 there will be no more compilers any more except FORTRAN which is needed for Finite Element stress programs.

 

[ExSan]

It has been predicted that by the year 2250 there will be no more compilers any more except FORTRAN which is needed for Finite Element stress programs.

does Fortran handle float better than C? please explain. salut !

 

[Daniel Duffy]

does Fortran handle float better than C? please explain. salut !

If you can't do it in FORTRAN, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.

Seriously, I don't know the answer. Why do you want to know?

 

[pingu]

does Fortran handle float better than C? please explain. salut !

it doesn't

 

[Daniel Duffy]

it doesn't

Depends on what you want to do. Exsan hasn't told us.

Fortran >> C + C++ for maths.

 

[pingu]

Depends on what you want to do. Exsan hasn't told us.

Fortran >> C + C++ for maths.

for maths... floating point support is more or less the same

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Fortran starts at index 1, C at offset 0, what a pain when coding.

Another difference; I started with Fortran 66 and C has no (HOLLERITH) punch cards

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