OT: Language for the ages

[Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez]

John Allain wrote:
>>Are there any schools teaching FORTRAN and more? Does it
>>have an active community? If not, ...

Just look at the traffic in comp.lang.fortran...

> 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.

A lot of scientific computing is still done in FORTRAN.  A common
approach is to code the numerics guts in Fortran, and call it from C
or something else.  Like it or not, FORTRAN is still widely used
by the numerical scientific computing community.  I even know
why, but I don't want to star a language war.

Carlos.