As I continue to work on my thesis on matrix structural analysis, I have been finding a number of older text books that have program functions to perform similar operations all writen in Fortran. I have been working in Matlab so far, and am wondering if I should consider incorporating some Fortran code for 2 reasons:
1) I have read reports about Fortran being a lot faster than Matlab, but I cannot compare the 2 as I have no experience in Fortran.
2) My lecturer has a lot of his own work written in Fortran which I am able to incorporate if I choose to.
Fortran seems like it was such a popular language, but in todays age it seams to be almost forgotten in terms of a language for engineering applications taught at a university level. I think it was on this site that I read that it is still used on super computers so I would have thought it would be a little more popular at a university level.
I just wanted to see what people on this forum had to say bout Fortran.
Thanks, Elbarto
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