Wow - people still write programs in Fortran...

[Colin Angus Mackay]

And for the PC too! I know because a program written in fortran running on my machine suddenly crashed[^]

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[_Magnus_]

It must have been used for the excellent error info dumped in crashdialogs...:doh:

/Magnus

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[PIEBALDconsult]

I must be Microsoft Fortran. My father used to have that on his Mac.

[Gary Kirkham]

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

people still write programs in Fortran

I'm not sure how much new code is being written, but there are a ton of legacy apps being used every day in the Aerospace industry...primarily engineering analysis applications. I spent about ten years writing GUI front-ends for old analysis apps.

Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot Me blog, You read

[El Corazon]

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

people still write programs in Fortran..

yes, and quite often. They keep me in business since I also translate Fortran to C/C++ and hand optimize to near the speed of Fortran. :) In fact, one of my sins in my business is that I will run complex mathematics under C/C++ rather than automatically do it in Fortran as others do. Worse still, I often do it faster. You can write slow programs in any language, including Fortran, I simply take advantage of that fact and write it better in C/C++. :-D

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

[Marc Clifton]

I can think of many programmers that ought to write Fortran, because that's about all they seem skilled to do. Marc

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People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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[Dan Neely]

Not just engineering, it's still common in scientific computing as well.

-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

Wow - people still write programs in Fortran

Of course they do. Fortran is the best language out there for heavy numerical calculcations.

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

I hate looking at screen shots of error messages like that. Yes! I clicked the damn OK button, and, for a second, wondered why nothing happened! :->

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

[Larsenal]

I'm in the middle of a project with plenty of number-crunching FORTRAN. My job is to pipe the I/O over the interweb using C#... what else? I'm not an old-school dev, so I had some catching up to do with FORTRAN.

[Ralph Wetzel]

Well... at least we finally discovered why we don't have snow this winter in Germany. Program crashed and failed to switch 'SNOW' back on ... :-D (Hint: Look @ the path of the crashed program ;-) ) Merry Christmas, Ralph