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Originally posted by zeitghostYup.
And all the interesting features, such as EQUIVALENCE, have been taken out.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostYes, 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.
Still use COBOL which has changed a heck of a lot over the years...
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostThe 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.
It was only later that I realised that somebody in Cheltenham who had developed a large library of Fortran code for analysing LF radio signals could only really be working in one place. And that is how, thanks to my free advice over a pint, GCHQ ended up having to support two dead languages for the price of one
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Originally posted by helpFul View PostYour nugatory "imagination" counts for nothing. There is a contract market for FORTRAN. I have profited from it.
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Imagine there's no FORTRAN
Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostYes, 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.
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The Demand for FORTRAN
Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostDoes 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.
More recently in 2008 I got a FORTRAN contract with a scientific research establishment.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to mudskipper again.
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostIf 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.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostDon't forget Fortran.NET: Lahey - LF Fortran for .NET
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostIsn't there a Fortran99? I think some old timers may still be using it, presumably mostly in legacy code.
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.
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Postand unbelievably, a few die hards are still using Cobol!
USB Switzerland actually moved a load of stuff to a mainframe with COBOL about a decade ago.
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Originally posted by Troll View PostBoth of which are renowned for the robustness of their models
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