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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by UniverseHacker on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:03PM (#34408677)
In a similar light, I recently spent some time working with modern Fortran, and was amazed to find it a modern, efficient, and intuitive language for scientific computing that in many ways makes Python look archaic. Not at all what I was expecting given its age And reputation.
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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by gps0 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:13AM (#34410902)
If only there was a proper tutorial/course for it... Maybe there is? Can you link any?
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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by UniverseHacker on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:28AM (#34442088)
There are a lot of good tutorials you can find with a search, but I don't remember any specific ones right now.
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Re:Otterkit COBOL, a new free and open source COBOL compiler... by krylon on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:29AM (#34410960)
AFAIU, Fortran acquired most of its bad reputation in the 60s and 70s. I think it was much more widespread than it is today. Then, as time went on, Fortran moved to the niche it was intended for originally (scientific computation) and was replaced by other languages for general purpose programming. Fortran continued to evolve, but few people got to see that, unless they cared to look. The rest of the world remembered the FORTRAN of old.
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