Abstract:This paper presents the results of a survey of Fortran users. The users were asked to identify the dialects of Fortran used, other languages used, target architectures, feature utilization (data-parallel, object-orientation and abstract data typing), views on formalism in programming, and views on standard Fortran and the standardization process. The results showed that the feature requirements of sequential and parallel users are divergent, but that in general Fortran programmers are assimilating all that tec… Show more
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