The skills gap for Fortran looms large in HPC
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Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety.
Fortran is the new COBOL
Yes, I know it's older. And better.
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Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety.
Fortran is the new COBOL
Yes, I know it's older. And better.
Are you getting nostalgic, Kent? :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety.
Fortran is the new COBOL
Yes, I know it's older. And better.
My memories of Fortran II aren't so fond
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My memories of Fortran II aren't so fond
I started with Fortan using Watcom IV, and later graduated to Fortran 77. The language has its good (and bad) points, but on balance I prefer working in more modern languages like Pascal, C, C++, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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I started with Fortan using Watcom IV, and later graduated to Fortran 77. The language has its good (and bad) points, but on balance I prefer working in more modern languages like Pascal, C, C++, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.