14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
9:06 p.m.
...
Are there any schools teaching FORTRAN and more? Does
it have
an active community? If not, you are going to have problems
finding good FORTRAN programmers in 30 years. I don't know,
but lately I haven't seen many people who know anything about
FORTRAN except that it was an early programming language.
Also, which version of FORTRAN (IV, 90, Watfor, ...) do you
want to develop around.
...
I have a nephew who got his PhD in Astrophysics a few years back. He says
FORTRAN is about all they use because they have vast libraries of FORTRAN
code that they can slap together to do big projects quickly. It has been
developed over quite a few years and is well debugged.
Gil