Fortran

[stek]

FTFY

It was a PC! The Power Station itself ran on MicroVaxes (and a couple of Alphas!) and some VAXStation 4000's I think - was a long time ago but the PowerStation was on a PC, state of the art Pentium 133's...

[jamesbrown]

Both of which are renowned for the robustness of their models

Precisely, they are. The predictions OTOH.

[Sysman]

Isn't there a Fortran99? I think some old timers may still be using it, presumably mostly in legacy code.

Intel Fortran Compilers

Intel got DEC's FORTRAN products and development team in the late 90s as part of a settlement for technology they had stolen from DEC. I heard at the time that the Visual FORTRAN product was really quite neat.

and unbelievably, a few die hards are still using Cobol!

There are apparently millions of lines of COBOL still in production use. Think traditional mainframe shops.

USB Switzerland actually moved a load of stuff to a mainframe with COBOL about a decade ago.

[NickFitz]

Don't forget Fortran.NET: Lahey - LF Fortran for .NET

[Sysman]

Don't forget Fortran.NET: Lahey - LF Fortran for .NET

If someone would do a similar thing with COBOL that might open up a lot of possibilities for those gazillion lines of legacy code out there.

[mudskipper]

If someone would do a similar thing with COBOL that might open up a lot of possibilities for those gazillion lines of legacy code out there.

Compile COBOL on the Microsoft® .NET

[Sysman]

Compile COBOL on the Microsoft® .NET

Ooh thanks!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to mudskipper again.

Will someone do the needful please?

[helpFul]

The Demand for FORTRAN

Does anyone here use it? Is it still used anywhere?

I used it back in the 1980s, but nobody seems to have mentioned it for years.

FORTRAN was my first language. I first used it from about 1972 to 1984 in academic and, latterly, contract environments.

More recently in 2008 I got a FORTRAN contract with a scientific research establishment.

[helpFul]

Imagine there's no FORTRAN

Yes, it's still widely used in scientific computing and engineering, particularly for tasks that require supercomputers (weather and climate modelling etc.). No contract market, I would imagine.

Your nugatory "imagination" counts for nothing. There is a contract market for FORTRAN. I have profited from it.

[jamesbrown]

Your nugatory "imagination" counts for nothing. There is a contract market for FORTRAN. I have profited from it.

The vast majority of coding is done by the scientists themselves (including scientific contractors like me), not by IT contractors. So, unless you're a scientist, your "market" is niche to put it mildly.