Re: Request for comment: follow-up to Summer of Code

>Fortran 95 and 2003 are higher level languages than C or assembler, and
>are arguably higher-level than Python or Lisp in the area of scientific
>computing.

I don't know anything about 2003 (except that it doesn't really exist
yet), but I use FORTRAN 95 all the time. I would say it is a lower
level language than C++ (regardless of which field you are working in)
and comes nowhere close to Lisp. I'd love to hear why you feel
differently. From what I have seen, any FORTRAN 95 program can be
translated line for line into Lisp (skipping some lines in the FORTRAN
program that are redundant but keep the FORTRAN 95 compiler happy).

Maybe you are thinking about library availability rather than the
language itself? If so, you might find this page interesting:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html

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