Maine farmer Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 The last time I wrote a computer program, I used Fortran. Just wondering exactly how outdated my programming skills are. Does anyone use Fortran for anything any more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 I did my PhD (finished ~2 years ago) in Fortran and science I am no exception. How it works is, during the master/bachelor universities want to be modern and teach you C++, then if you go to the PhD your supervisor comes either from the Fortran time or his supervisor did; this means I got to the PhD-year 1 and my prof used Fortran so I learned it, since many programs I need he/others had already written. Over the PhD-years I got better and better at it (have even some accepted answers on stackoverflow) with the result that if I stayed in research then I would also be using Fortran. Conclusion: Fortran Never Dies :-). Actually, when I asked once an informatician why ALL of them always laugh when you say Fortran, his reply was cool: "because it is old". So the only critic to Fortran seems to be its age:-).Anyway, scientific coding is just sooo much easier in Fortran than say with C++... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrushkagoogol Posted March 7, 2016 Report Share Posted March 7, 2016 The last time I wrote a computer program, I used Fortran. Just wondering exactly how outdated my programming skills are. Does anyone use Fortran for anything any more?When I graduated FORTRAN was in vogue. It used to be used with PASCAL. Today compilers are better and even a smart phone has more power than a PC of that period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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