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To: dynachrome

I used to be fluent in FORTRAN.

FORTRAN is now obsolete.

Not fluent enough to work on fixing legacy systems...

I love what I do now.


30 posted on 02/03/2019 6:52:33 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain
I beg to differ. Fortran is not obsolete; not by a long shot. It's still the go-to language for computational heavy lifting.

https://wg5-fortran.org/f2018.html
58 posted on 02/03/2019 7:56:34 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: marktwain

I first learned to code in FORTRAN, too. Used an IBM 1620 with line-cards. It sort of morphed into BASIC afterward. I was programming into the late 1990’s with the various versions of it. I never made the transition into Visual BASIC since I was doing too little programming by then. BTW, programming was not my primary job. It was just a side job to make my engineering job easier.


65 posted on 02/03/2019 9:27:12 PM PST by jim_trent
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