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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by charlesap on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:19AM (#22841799)
I work at a place that writes new Fortran code today. Also c++, Python, Julia. Scientists will choose the least impedance mismatch to a library, some needed data set, or their brain.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by metreo on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:32PM (#22842861)
To be sure. And I don't think that modern Fortran is overly obscure that you couldn't basically pick it up over a weekend from the language specification.

Every modern Linux distribution has a current gfortran bundled.

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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by TheRealKing on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:33AM (#22853196)
Modern Fortran is amazing. Force your company to move to Fortran 2008 and beyond. A good reference book is Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2018.
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