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I used to work for one of the megabanks. The majority of their credit card processing is written in Fortran and runs on 20-30+ yr old mainframes. They don't dar
by twrkit 12y ago
I used to work for one of the megabanks. The majority of their credit card processing is written in Fortran and runs on 20-30+ yr old mainframes. They don't dare touch it. "If it ain't broke..."
There are certain universities that teach Fortran specifically for companies like this; any student of Fortran has an automatic offer once they graduate.
- Ecio78 12y agoAre you sure it was Fortran and not Cobol? Normally Fortran was used for academic/math (ForTran stands for Formula Translation, Cobol in busines (Cobol stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language).
- JackFr 12y agoFortran found its way into finance because it was the programming language taught to engineers in school. (These were real engineers -- software engineers hadn't been invented yet.) If you hired them to build computer systems you got systems in Fortran unless you specified otherwise.
- drivingmenuts 12y agoHow's the pay for Fortran programmers? Both Fortran and Cobol are capable, but unexciting, languages. I'd be OK working with either one if the pay was good and the employment guaranteed.