Why is FORTRAN cool again?
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The number of hits in google, yahoo, etc, etc. :rolleyes: IIRC they massage it somewhat, but that's ultimately what it comes down to.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
If that is so.. then the stats reflect the most popular language, that is being learned at the moment. I was under the illusion they reflected the most popular languages, that are desired in the job market at the moment. I also noticed, in the list of real programmers, qualifications, that it didn't mention anything about taking full advantage of the the Ballmer Peak.[^]
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:sigh: Do you realize the way they measure language usage is just silly beyond silly? It's like saying world wide corned beef production is up 3000% because 7 penguins died due to red devil attacks. Its all a farce I tell you and this has to come up in the lounge every so often. I think Rama Guru would back me up on this.
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Man, that's a mean sounding hockey game just to get that Irish food.
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When exactly was the three-way IF statement not cool?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Three-way IF statement became uncool when FORTRAN-77 introduced IF THEN ELSE statements. (I helped implement them for FORTRAN on TOPS-10/20, which was written in Bliss-10...)
You have it backwards. It became cooler when that new-fangled IF-THEN-ELSE verbosity was introduced.
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I like to check the tiobe index http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html[^] every once in awhile to see what the trends are and usually it's pretty easy to explain why a language is rapidly gaining in popularity. For instance Objective-C is benifiting from the Iphone and Go is a new language so probably people are curious/trying it out. But I was suprised to find Fortran has almost doubled it's share since last year and is in the top 20 now. Is "real programming" coming back in style or something http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html[^] :laugh:?
Fortran is never cool, but it is still very very useful.
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
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Those of us that are required to come with interplanetary trajectories to other planets often care about such archaic languages :)
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
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Some of us still use computers to crunch numbers and FORTRAN is hard to beat. And as one of the previous posters said the old code still runs. I know of 40+ year old code that is still running.
Clayton
But gosh, its so much nicer if you still have all the source code so you don't have to run it in a DOS shell or worse find an ancient sparc that still runs. I end up recompiling code on more recent compilers for some of my coworkers and they are just flaberghasted at how much faster it runs (10-20x) under newer compilers.
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
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Those of us that are required to come with interplanetary trajectories to other planets often care about such archaic languages :)
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
Just remember to use meters not feet. :)
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Just remember to use meters not feet. :)
Pshaw... we use astronomical units (AU) or kilometers. All other units are inferior, even if they are in same metric family.
ragnaroknrol: Yes, but comparing a rabid wolverine gnawing on your face while stabbing you with a fountain pen to Vista is likely to make the wolverine look good, so it isn't exactly that big of a compliment.
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Three-way IF statement became uncool when FORTRAN-77 introduced IF THEN ELSE statements. (I helped implement them for FORTRAN on TOPS-10/20, which was written in Bliss-10...)
CDMTJX wrote:
Three-way IF statement became uncool when FORTRAN-77 introduced IF THEN ELSE statements.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!