Fortran - Languages - Programming - Computers

1 The Fortran

http://www.fortranstatement.com/cgi-bin/petition.pl

PR: 5

The Fortran computer programming language was designed to fulfill the needs of 1950\'s era computer hardware and numerical models. Modern hardware, numerical methods, and programming styles share little with those of the 1950\'s, and demand new tools, not incremental refinements of old ones.

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2 Task Parallelism and Fortran

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fortran-m/FM.html

PR: 5

The task parallelism group at Argonne National Laboratory investigates applications, language constructs, compilation, and runtime system issues associated with the use of task parallelism, and mixed task/data parallelism. Much of this work is performed in the context of Fortran, but many of the techniques apply equally to other languages.

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