[Hootowl99]

Gimme back my FORTRAN. That is something I understand. Crunch numbers. Caveman.

Long retired Engineer….

[kosciusko51]

Modern Fortran is quite a bit more complex than FORTRAN 77, and includes object-oriented capabilities. Of course, it still can compile 77 code.

There are still many engineering number-crunching software packages that use Fortran.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gimme back my FORTRAN. That is something I understand. Crunch numbers. Caveman.

I never learned FORTRAN, but programmed a bit in FOCAL (FOrmula CALculator) on a PDP-8/M under ETOS. Similar to BASIC, but with a DEFINED FUNCTION command that standard BASIC of the era did not have.

Then, when I went to college. the programming course was in STANDARD PASCAL. No built-in string-handlers. Ugh. Outside of light Microsoft MSX BASIC and HTML/PHP/Javascript, I never programmed again. I'd probably be making more money if I stuck with it.