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Some of our core assets are still in Fortran.

• loa_in_ 6y ago
  What do you mean by our? I guess you mean collective scientific community?
  • corty 6y ago
    That, and lots of companies. Everything thats old and not COBOL is FORTRAN.
    • ineedasername 6y ago
      Yes, this is certainly true. I work with a "modern" ERP that just had it's newest release. Lots of low level pieces are stíll in COBOL.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      Alongside UNIX and C, which happen to be just 10 years younger, but people keep forgetting it.
      • TheRealKing 6y ago
        In fact, Fortran is one of the oldest and newest programming languages in the world right now, with the Fortran 2018 standard released just recently.