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On Monday 15 September 2014 07:21:18 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> I believe Fortran is still very much alive and well in engineering and |
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> physics - 40 years of number crunching code doesn't just go away by itself |
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Confirmed. (Remember Blake's Seven?) It's the main application language in a |
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multimillion-pound grid control system I was involved with 20 years ago. |
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Fortran 66, that is, not 90. Nine other languages were used too - even |
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including Pascal or something like it. Just the mainframes cost millions. |
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> I could go on, but you get the idea :-) |
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What, you? :-) |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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