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Re:Ask HN: Jobs for young/old FORTRAN programmers? by dirtyaura on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:21PM (#9103948)
I used to do watershed modelling with Fortran back in the late 90s. There's definitely a lot of legacy Fortran software still in use, but more in research and science oriented fields. I think there are still interesting opportunities in which you interface modern web UIs with a legacy Fortran implementations that do some cool scientific modelling.

You are unlikely to make as good money as Cobol programmers, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Jobs for young/old FORTRAN programmers? by CoreSet on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:43PM (#9104066)
My father worked as a hydrologist doing very similar work!

It's funny, when I first heard him tell me he used Fortran, I immediately thought "typical slow-to-change state government!" etc etc. Only subsequently did I realize how prevalent (and useful) the language is for scientific research, advanced computing, engineering, and a bunch of other services - basically the exact purposes he was using it for.

Nice to see some longevity after learning so many things that seem more fad-ish!

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