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		Bostonian on May 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compute-intensive cross-platform library, which la... If the domain is scientific computing, consider Fortran, for which compilers are available on most platforms.

pklausler on May 21, 2024 [–]

It depends how portable they want their code to be across implementations and over time. Fortran compilers vary widely in their interpretations of the language, more so than mainstream C/C++ compilers do.

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