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I don’t think this is true. All the people who got stuck in the 1980s retired. The people I know who write in-house Fortran codes are somewhere in F2003 (all of
by kergonath 3y ago
I don’t think this is true. All the people who got stuck in the 1980s retired. The people I know who write in-house Fortran codes are somewhere in F2003 (all of the multidimensional arrays and allocatable variables niceness, some objects and QoL improvements from F2008/2018). None of them still writes in fixed form, and most of them never did at any point in their careers.
- BeetleB 3y agoBased on the comments, it seems it is very field dependent. My experience is mostly from physics/electromagnetics. All my fellow grad students learned Fortran 77 as that's what the code bases were in. I should ping the few that are professors to see if they're forcing their students to behave likewise.
- jki275 3y agoIt's absolutely true in some domains. I've got several million lines of F77 and no money to update it and an absolute mandate not to change a single compiler flag.