John Smith wrote:
. . .
But, Roy, Fortran is a dead language--
. . .

You're very wrong about that. Fortran is in wide daily use, with a great
deal of active programming going on. The main users are academic,
scientific community, and the military. Compilers are modern and
continue to be updated. The language itself undergoes periodic revisions
and updates via a standards committee. It's an evolving, modern, active
language. Drop by comp.lang.fortran or do a little basic web research
and see for yourself.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Well, I disagree...
We often ship a project out of house for coding, we don't care what language
the coder creates in...
the "#define" statement is VERY powerful in "C"... with it, we have created
headers in BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, etc... and defined the WHOLE LANGUAGE to
call C functions in place of those of the native language (there are also
translaters which translate any souce to C source, and these are generally
used in place of the headers, as documentation in C is produced at the same
time)...
Although the programmer is creating in another language, it compiles on a "C
compiler."
Now and then, to keep fluent in Pascal, I use one of these headers, I write
in Pascal--and a C compiler builds the object code...

New Jr. programmers used to come in fluent in other languages other than
"C"--this was all designed to allow them to be productive from day
one--while they came up to speed in C.

Now, C programmers are common, and I don't remember when this was last
used...

Now, most of our code is being done off shore... the world is VERY C savvy!

Regards,
John

Roy Lewallen wrote:

John Smith wrote:

. . .
But, Roy, Fortran is a dead language--

. . .

You're very wrong about that. Fortran is in wide daily use, with a great
deal of active programming going on. The main users are academic,
scientific community, and the military. Compilers are modern and
continue to be updated. The language itself undergoes periodic revisions
and updates via a standards committee. It's an evolving, modern, active
language. Drop by comp.lang.fortran or do a little basic web research
and see for yourself.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

The basic design was well founded, and based upon need and usefullness,
unlike some following languages such as Ada and Pascal.

I wrote my first programs in Fortran II, which ran on a very small 360.

tom
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