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Re:Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly by loa_in_ on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:08AM (#24636603)
What do you mean by our? I guess you mean collective scientific community?
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Re:Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly by corty on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:07AM (#24637463)
That, and lots of companies. Everything thats old and not COBOL is FORTRAN.
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Re:Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly by ineedasername on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:01AM (#24637827)
Yes, this is certainly true. I work with a "modern" ERP that just had it's newest release. Lots of low level pieces are stíll in COBOL.
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Re:Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly by pjmlp on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:05AM (#24638323)
Alongside UNIX and C, which happen to be just 10 years younger, but people keep forgetting it.
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Re:Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly by TheRealKing on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:25PM (#24641196)
In fact, Fortran is one of the oldest and newest programming languages in the world right now, with the Fortran 2018 standard released just recently.
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