# Julia vs Fortran complaint

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-vs-fortran-complaint/4366
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** fortran
**Created:** [June 20, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-vs-fortran-complaint/4366 "2017-06-20T13:09:48Z")
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### Author: ![Keno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/keno/32/285_2.png) [@Keno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Keno)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-vs-fortran-complaint/4366/13 "2017-06-20T21:40:37Z")

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As for the performance claims in the blog post. I understand where the uneasiness with those quotes comes from. I’ve  
had the same discussion with our marketing folks. However, they are real quotes from our actual customers  
that have replaced their legacy code bases with julia implementations. That’s of course not a “language speed  
benchmark” and part of the improvement certainly comes from redoing the implementation and incorporating  
learnings from the legacy solutions. So I’d take it for what it is. It’s testimonials from some  
people who’ve switched to julia and saw huge benefits. I think we’d be remiss not to advertise that they  
were able to do that.

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