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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by Koshkin on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:33PM (#22842869)
Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by WorldMaker on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:54PM (#22859357)
Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.
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