OT: Language for the ages

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Kevin Handy once stated:
> 
> >So what would it be?   My vote is for FORTRAN.
>
> Are there any schools teaching FORTRAN and more? Does it
> have an active community? If not, you are going to have problems
> finding good FORTRAN programmers in 30 years. I don't know,
> but lately I haven't seen many people who know anything about
> FORTRAN except that it was an early programming language.
> Also, which version of FORTRAN (IV, 90, Watfor, ...) do you
> want to develop around.

  I know one guy, younger than me (I'm in my mid-30s) who not only still
uses FORTRAN, but still *writes* in FORTRAN, for his job [1].

  -spc (Don't thing FORTRAN is going away any time soon ... )

[1]	He has a Ph.D. in physics, and does simulations of the
	interior of stars ...