14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
2:19 p.m.
John Allain wrote:
>Are there any schools teaching FORTRAN and more?
Does it
>have an active community? If not, ...
Just look at the traffic in comp.lang.fortran...
Amazingly*, Yes.
I go visit my old college bookstore every few years for fresh titles
in Computer Science (this year: I bought O/S internals by Stallings).
It's a top 25 undergraduate engineering ranked place with a big
budget for new equipment so I was quite surprised to see this year
the book "Classical Fortran" by Kupferschmid. In my head I'm thinking
Fortran is Only for classiccmps and classiccmps are Retired equipment.
Apparently this course is for maintenence programmers.
John A.
A lot of scientific computing is still done in FORTRAN. A common
approach is to code the numerics guts in Fortran, and call it from C
or something else. Like it or not, FORTRAN is still widely used
by the numerical scientific computing community. I even know
why, but I don't want to star a language war.
Carlos.