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Re:Programming is hard by JackFr on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:04PM (#26718913)
My uncle worked at the National Institutes of Health for about 35 years doing bioinformatics and protein structure modeling. In FORTRAN. Always in FORTRAN. He knew other stuff, but the bulk of his work was always FORTRAN.
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Re:Programming is hard by BlueTemplar on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:26AM (#26721449)
And young people are still learning Fortran today, though it's not the most common language any more, and we tend to learn several different ones.
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Re:Programming is hard by mywittyname on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:22AM (#26724523)
I didn't learn fortran in university, but I did have to learn it for a job. It's still THE language for scientific computing. So in any job in or adjacent to scientific computing, you're bound to run into fortran.
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