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Surely this is going to be the Next Big Thing.
by nirse 5y ago
Surely this is going to be the Next Big Thing.
- joelbluminator 5y agoIt might; hipsters love old stuff so...
- nix23 5y agoAnd Linux dev's loves to reinvent the wheel, but this time as a square ;)
- bodge5000 5y agoI hope not, its been on my list for ages because barely anyone (compartively to other languages) still works with it, but a lot of legacy systems still rely on it. If hipsters come in and take that from me I'll have to learn something even worse
- code_duck 5y agoI actually founded /r/fortran as a joke because I thought nobody used it anymore, but it was later adopted by people who in fact use modern FORTRAN. Later I met someone who has a very good job programming in FORTRAN for a 20,000 CPU supercomputer which is used to simulate nuclear explosions. It is in fact a current, relevant language that has specific unique strengths.
- vaxman 5y ago> I actually founded /r/fortran as a joke WATFOR it..
- dhosek 5y agoOh man, you just gave me a sense memory of the smell of the Waterloo documentation in the UIC computer lab.
- bodge5000 5y agoWell I didnt want it to come to this, but COBOL it is then... On a serious note, at least right now it is quite a niche language that appears to have more demand than supply, so might still be a good idea. Even better in fact if its at least attempting to be modern
- matu3ba 5y agonot really legacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Science_and_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Science_and_engineerin... LAPACK upstream wont move to another language, unless there are significant advantages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK And this is not in sight (yet) for operations on block-data like matrices.