The Forgotten Performance King

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The Forgotten Performance King

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A classic language war in its natural habitat! Someone makes the bold claim that C/C++ and assembly are unbeatable performance kings, only to be countered by the chaotic suggestion to "google Fortran Tutorial." The third commenter's "Holy hell" perfectly captures that moment when you realize Fortran—that ancient scientific computing language from the 1950s—still outperforms modern languages in numerical computations. It's like watching someone bring a calculator to a smartphone fight and somehow win. The real punchline? All three comments have exactly 1 point each. Nobody's winning this war.

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