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I have not much experience with fortran but I see it as something like cobol - a relict of old times.

• galangalalgol 3y ago
  I don't think you are getting downvoted because people think you are wrong. Both cobol and fortran are still in widespread use, but primarily for maintained projects that are not well understood even though they still work well. You are getting downvoted because, unlike cobol, plenty of people still like fortran. It isn't a bad language at all, it has had meaningful updates for modern HPC. So people are sad to see it go.
  • ulrischa 3y ago
    Yes this is exactly what I think. Not nice getting downvote for that. In the future I shut my mouth
• xmcqdpt2 3y ago
  It's more like C or C++. Old, yes, but actively developed by a standards committee. In terms of features, it's definitely more modern than C, with generics, move semantics for pointers etc.
  • pklausler 3y ago
    “Actively” is debatable. New revisions arrive at roughly 5-year cadence and some (esp. 2018 and 2023) have been pretty small updates. And implementation uptake since F’95 has been spotty and buggy, so new features aren’t as portable as they should be, standard or not. (See https://github.com/klausler/fortran-wringer-tests https://github.com/klausler/fortran-wringer-tests for some examples.)