OT: Language for the ages

[William Donzelli]

> All this time FORTRAN has survived.  Still a great language for number
> crunching, it's withstood attempts by X3J3 to make it a completely opaque
> mess of features.  By and large, if you write a program in FORTRAN IV or
> 77, you can find a compiler for just about every machine ever made.

Also, so many models are written in FORTRAN already - models that work, so
why reinvent the wheel?

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org