A little birdie recently told me that NASA is out there trying to hire FORTRAN programmers.
So perhaps some un-mothballing is in the works.
The problem is by the time you get these things designed, field tested, budgeted, approved, and actually built, they are already long obsolete. Hence the FORTRAN.
“A little birdie recently told me that NASA is out there trying to hire FORTRAN programmers.
So perhaps some un-mothballing is in the works.
The problem is by the time you get these things designed, field tested, budgeted, approved, and actually built, they are already long obsolete. Hence the FORTRAN.”
I’ve heard they’re having to do a whole lot of reverse engineering because the lessons learned in the 70’s have been forgotten. Even to the point of going to surplus yards to find left over stainless steel mixing and combustion chambers from the Saturn V engines. If they’re looking for Fortran programmers perhaps they’re trying to resurrect some of the data acquisition software from the period.