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Re:Assault by GC by beagle3 on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:49PM (#3152272)
No, unfortunately.

I'm close to 40, dinosaurish by HN/Reddit standards, but I learned Fortran mostly because back in the late 80s and early 90s essentially all numeric processing code was written either in Assembly or Fortran; and at a later stage, because I was the only one proficient in Fortran, I inherited lots of legacy code at work.

Most people my age, even if they've been programming since age 9, haven't seen any Fortran unless they're doing physics or using LAPACK.

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Re:Assault by GC by true_religion on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:08PM (#3152486)
As a 20something who has been unfortunately intimate with Fortran, I can see why people in the past would have been fanatical about C, and heck even talked about the virtues of diving into assembly rather than deal with Fortran.
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