Re:Show HN: A Fortran web framework
by chubot on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:13PM
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It's also used heavily in R itself and in many R packages. In fact some people go as far as to say R is a wrapper around Fortran libraries.
So yeah Fortran is not dead by any means. Tons of people are using it every day, but perhaps not writing code in it. Just like your OS and browser are written in C/C++ but your applications might not be.
So yeah Fortran is not dead by any means. Tons of people are using it every day, but perhaps not writing code in it. Just like your OS and browser are written in C/C++ but your applications might not be.