FORTRAN somebodys gotta press that button every 8 hours or we're all fucked. Thanks MAE guys. Never thought you'd end up babysitting defunct cold war era devices up in North Dakota huh? I guess those free pay-checks your senior year wasn't such a good deal after all.

8/13/2012 5:23:15 AM

What?

8/13/2012 6:17:13 AM

i wrote FORTRAN in all caps on one of programming experience applications. Only had one guy notice it and chuckle.

8/13/2012 7:09:58 AM

well considering I am referring to the old stuff, it seemed appropriate.

8/13/2012 8:05:55 AM

gcc supports fortran

so it's gonna be around for a while

8/13/2012 11:43:46 PM

just as long as gcc is around a while...

8/14/2012 12:03:13 AM

dood it's open source and underlies most of the world's webservers and smartphones

it will never die

8/14/2012 1:05:40 AM

there are few select banks that still use this.

plus it's still taught in CSC classes. It's not going any where.

8/14/2012 7:01:18 AM

^^http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1646230/freebsd-10-to-use-clang-compiler-deprecate-gcc

The times they are a changin.

GCC has to compete or it will fade away. If clang allows much better developer tools (and it certainly appears it does), then people will switch.

8/14/2012 7:56:56 PM

Y'alls know NumPy is a thing, right?

Quote :

"plus it's still taught in CSC classes. It's not going any where."

For aero and mech majors, not for CSC majors.

8/14/2012 9:15:09 PM

yeah, gcc is on its way out. clang is the fookin heezy.

8/14/2012 9:16:56 PM

LLVM FOR LYFE

j/k lol

8/14/2012 9:23:08 PM

I have read the original post about 5 times and still can't quite figure out what it is trying to say. Why does someone have to push a button every 8 hours? Who is babysitting "defunct cold war era devices" in North Dakota and why? Who was getting free paychecks their senior year and why?


And fyi I use FORTRAN all the time for "serious work". A shit load of the programming done on the Curiosity rover was written in FORTRAN.

8/15/2012 9:20:23 AM

All the (good) meteorological models are coded up in fortran

8/15/2012 9:24:09 AM

Fortran is (still) very good at a few things.

8/15/2012 10:22:09 AM

it's called FORTRAN because it once ran a fort, get it

8/16/2012 1:29:33 AM

Quote :

"For aero and mech majors, not for CSC majors."

it was thrown into one of my optional 400 level classes. Fortran and mix of other "legacy" languages (BASIC, Prolog, Perl, Lisp). Not a whole course or anything dedicated to it.

8/16/2012 6:59:32 AM

Perl isn't a legacy language.

8/18/2012 1:18:49 AM

NEITHER IS LISP I SWEAR

it's the official programming language of the gay community lol~♥

8/18/2012 1:40:09 AM

Still used to design nuclear reactor cores.

8/18/2012 9:16:44 AM