OT: Language for the ages

[Zane H. Healy]

> 
> > Are there any schools teaching FORTRAN and more? Does it
> >have an active community? If not, ...
> 
> Amazingly*, Yes.
> I go visit my old college bookstore every few years for fresh titles
> in Computer Science (this year: I bought O/S internals by Stallings).
> It's a top 25 undergraduate engineering ranked place with a big 
> budget for new equipment so I was quite surprised to see this year
> the book "Classical Fortran" by Kupferschmid.  In my head I'm thinking
> Fortran is Only for classiccmps and classiccmps are Retired equipment.
> Apparently this course is for maintenence programmers.
> 
> John A.
> * to me, for one.
> 

Fortran seems to still be the favorite language for number crunching.

	Zane