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nativedutch t1_jabteh9 wrote

I have a book on Fortran dated somewhere in the seventies. Thats also the last i heard of it.

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tysam_and_co t1_jabuwtt wrote

Well, until recently, NumPy apparently was made of Fortran! :OOOO

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nativedutch t1_jabwc5v wrote

never too old to learn, i didnt know that. Amazing.

Nothing about Cobol?

I liked Forth, but that died.

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-xylon t1_jabxwa6 wrote

I did an applied Math masters in 2016 and they teached us Fortran (Matlab too), along with the usual commercial software such as ansys + ofc all the PDE theory necessary.

Point being: it's niche but it's still there. Classmates who ended up tightly adhering to the masters career path now write Fortran for a living.

And don't try to sell me "but C++ does the same and it's better/more modern". I've written Fortran, I've written C++, and Fortran is neither arcane nor hard, especially when you use it for its intended purpose (FORmula TRANslation, i.e. physics sims), in fact it blows C++ out of the water in usability if you are not a computer scientist... Which is why physicists and mathematicians keep using it.

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nativedutch t1_jac20a6 wrote

Wont sell anything I have no hard opinion on it, where i worked fortran, cobol just disappeared.

I never used it being in real time machine language (assembler) programming, which is another universe.

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Javlington t1_jadhyz3 wrote

Chris Sawyer wrote Rollercoaster Tycoon purely in assembly!

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nativedutch t1_jadjn3y wrote

I still like assembler, whatever platform. It gives you a very direct feel between machine and function. It is more work though.

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