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Since Fortran 90 the name has been Fortran, not FORTRAN with all caps. As for which version is used in the wild, it's the same as with many other languages tha
by jabl 5y ago
Since Fortran 90 the name has been Fortran, not FORTRAN with all caps.
As for which version is used in the wild, it's the same as with many other languages that have stuck around for a long time. Plenty of legacy code which might still be F77, but practically all new projects, or extensive modernization of legacy code, will make use of the modern features.
I suspect Fortran's reputation is largely due to many of the foundational libraries of numerical computing like BLAS and LAPACK, are F77 (LAPACK uses a small number of 'modern' features, but largely it's still a F77 codebase). This is the kind of Fortran that non-Fortran programmers might come into contact with. But the Fortran that Fortran programmers write today is definitely much more modern.