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Fortran On Fighter-Jets

• greglindahl 7y ago
  Super-sonic fighter jets probably were designed using a lot of Fortran.
  • 7thaccount 7y ago
    For sure, but their avionics software is written in Ada or C++.
    • greglindahl 7y ago
      And that's relevant, because... ?
      • 7thaccount 7y ago
        How is it not? Someone said something about fighter jets being written in Fortran. Someone corrected them saying they aren't, but they are modeled using Fortran. I tried to add to the conversation by saying what they were written in assuming that would also be of interest to the person who made the original comment. I'm sorry this has perturbed you.
        • greglindahl 7y ago
          Ah. Thanks for the explanation.
          • 7thaccount 7y ago
            Lol no biggie. Your bio seem pretty awesome btw! What technologies have you used to do all that?
        • raattgift 7y ago
          There is likely a lot more railway traffic control software written in Simula ( "The basic simulation kernel, the TTS module based on the SIMON/TTS system, is today implemented in Simula and running on a UNIX platform." https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ed7e/d90fbc57b7ee0473d41edbd0d889e2b4300b.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ed7e/d90fbc57b7ee0473d41edb... [2008] -- last listed author works for and the work is funded by Banverket, the Swedish National Rail Administration ) than in Ruby, and yet it's still rubyonrails.org.