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Hell yeah, Fortran still lives.
It shouldn't, but it does... Shush, you!
I was going to write a book with someone about the new standard back in the late '80s, was even an IEEE member with a SIG-FORTRASH, eh, SIG-FORTRAN specialty. I knew (or thought I knew) all the ins and outs and the party tricks with FORTRAN-77, so the new standard should be a cinch.
But it was a standard decided by committee (trouble...) - members of which probably didn't get along (more trouble...) so I suppose so it never came out for years and years and eventually I lost interest and embraced C.
Actually I embraced C long before but it sounds better if I said I was monogamous.
And buddy, it's not Fortran, it's FORTRAN (you SHOUT it to the world! Caps, dude!!!)
If you've got an unwieldy block of code and it's tested and it works and it's efficient, why bother translate to the latest fad - especially if doing that introduces instabilities? Especially if the code is made of spaghetti, and FORTRAN programs are made of the finest angel hair pasta. |
