A rift in the NTP world

Posted Feb 16, 2017 16:28 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: A rift in the NTP world by Cyberax
Parent article: A rift in the NTP world

> > C is the only rational choice for things that truly need to be fast and as close to the metal as possible. (Assembly is the best choice for true performance and reliability.)

> No, it's not. And assembly? LOL.

Which is why a lot of time critical stuff was (and is) written in Fortran.

Fortran was the language of choice when simulations had difficulty keeping up with the real world, for example in weather forcasting ...

Cheers,
Wol

A rift in the NTP world

Posted Feb 16, 2017 19:23 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Oy vey...

Weather stuff is written in all kinds of languages. It does NOT need to do anything realtime, just fast enough. Fortran is used simply because the earliest models hark back to the beginning of 60-s.