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I doubt it will make a come-back, just because it's seen as ancient and out-dated. When was its hey-day anyway? Late 1980s or early 1990s maybe?
by jamesfinlayson 5y ago
I doubt it will make a come-back, just because it's seen as ancient and out-dated.
When was its hey-day anyway? Late 1980s or early 1990s maybe?
- findalex 5y agoLot's of FORTRAN still in the LCF production queues.
- TheRealKing 5y agoI doubt your baseless doubt. What do you mean by outdated? do you mean those decades-old features like "modules" that other "modern" languages (like C++) are now adding in 2021? Or do you mean vectorized array syntax that is almost non-existent in other "modern" programming languages?, or do you mean a scalable human-readable built-in native passive parallel distributed communication paradigm that no other "modern" languages yet have? I assume it was a typo in your writing, you meant Fortran is a post-modern language.
- jamesfinlayson 5y agoI mean it's not technology that most people will use in their day jobs, so in many companies it's unlikely to be suggested as a language to build something new in. I know one company in my area that has a Fortran codebase which continues to exist because it's critical software, but they continually struggle to find anyone who knows Fortran, let alone enough Fortran to work on such an important system.
- pjmlp 5y agoIn HPC it never went away, it even got modules before C++.