OT: Language for the ages

[Tony Duell]

> 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. 

I was told that my Ph.D. thesis in particle physics is almost unique 
because it doesn't contain (or make use of) one single line of Fortran. 
There's plenty of Occam, VAX Pascal, and even a custom-designed 
microcode, but no Fortran...

-tony