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> What happens when some of this old hardware breaks and it becomes not only impossible to find replacement parts but also impossible to fabricate new ones in h
by plq 11y ago
> What happens when some of this old hardware breaks and it becomes not only impossible to find replacement parts but also impossible to fabricate new ones in house.
You get a modern Fortran compiler, you compile the old code for the new stuff and off you go. What am I missing?
> Eventually, like all languages, Fortran will die out as time goes on. So few people know it now that it is inevitable.
Like ALL languages? Ha, tell that to the COBOL programmers at the heart of some financial institutions mate. Heck, RPG is still supported on some IBM hardware.
- gravypod 11y agoI'm talking about languages on a larger scale. Do you mean to tell me that COBOL or Fortran will last _forever_? All languages die out eventually. It does not matter that it is a programming language, the concept will remain. Nothing is perpetual, nothing lasts forever. I hate to break it to you, but eventually something will give.