Re: F2003 complier, how far from us?

On Aug 25, 10:08 am, Simulate <li.sim...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had started to write my code in the summer of 2006. I choosed
fortran as my program language for the reason that the F2003 standard
which released in 2004. I wants oo and something like STL which in c++
(class (*) in fortran 2003). However, two year years later today, no
one compiler was realesed in Windows platform of full oo capicity. I'm
surprised about the development of fortran!

I'm a little disappointed! May be c++ is more excellenced today.

F2003 complier, how far from us?

For OO programming, C++ is definitely better. However, matrix math in C
++ is more complicated, partly because there are many different C++
matrix implementations. In addition, OO programming is generally
slower, and most Fortran programs are aimed at high-performance. Most
Fortran programmers are not very interested in using OO for
computational code. Therefore, compiler developers are not in a hurry
to implement it. (At least that is my take on the situation.)

If you are interested in OO programming as more of a data management
feature, or for creating a user interface, it may make sense to write
just the OO parts in C++. Then you can write the math code in Fortran,
and use C calls to join them together. IMHO, using Fortran for math
and avoiding it for non-math is a good programming model, which can
now be portable with ISO_C_BINDING.

F2008 adds features that improve the usability of type classes, so it
is possible that these features will become a higher priority.
.

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