OT: Language for the ages

[Gil Carrick]

...
> 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 have a nephew who got his PhD in Astrophysics a few years back. He says
FORTRAN is about all they use because they have vast libraries of FORTRAN
code that they can slap together to do big projects quickly. It has been
developed over quite a few years and is well debugged. 

Gil