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I was beginning to wonder if FORTRAN programmers were being put to pasture.
FORTRAN and Windows, eh?
I was recently offered a contract to port a FORTRAN application to an SQL environment!?
Pretty wierd "skillset" required, eh?
Contrary to what many in the Computer Science academic world would have all of us believe, Fortran is alive and quite well. Its critics today most often cite shortcomings of the language as it stood nearly three decades ago, ignoring the several updates to the language since then. There is a standing committee that regularly meets to discuss and ultimately accept or reject proposals for extension of the language, and every so many years a new standard is issued. Fortran remains largely the language of choice among the scientific community for its computer work, with good reason. What I find amusing is when someone posts an anti-Fortran comment on one of the forums I mentioned earlier. The flood of rebuttal that inevitably follows, debunking the criticisms of the first poster, is rather humorous to read.
