30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
9:39 a.m.
I work in scientific computing and occasionally still see FORTRAN codes
around. Not totally dead yet ... You'd be surprised how many, say, R
libraries are written in FORTRAN ...
What concerns me is the amount of code these days that is being written in
languages that has no formal standard at all. Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, the
list goes on ... I wonder how much of it will still be useful in ten or
fifteen years.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 09:01:38AM -0700, Chuck Guzis
wrote:
On 10/30/2015 02:29 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Joe still loves his Fortran. In fact, many Scientist/Engineers seem to
still use Fortran.
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/i
?Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In
60-Year-Old Languages
I think the demise of FORTRAN is overstated. That there is an X3 group
still advancing the language attests to that. While FORTRAN may be a
60-year old language, Fortran is not.
As far as assembly, I don't believe that it's a dead language. When you
need simple, rugged, low-power hardware, it's still a very good way to
go.
--Chuck
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