On Saturday 17 February 2007 03:30, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
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People still use FORTRAN?
Your knowledge about programming languages seems to be quite limited.
Ha!
For instance, Fortran is used in scientific and high-performance (numerical) computing, and many companies still have old Fortran code to maintain. Therefore the answer is: yes, people still use Fortran.
My apologies - the sarchasm tag must have fallen off. Having written JCL and Cobol and tried to integrate that with a COM+ DLL into a .NET application, I'm pretty familiar with what's out there. Recently, we've been having to tap into FOCUS to get information from a database written in the '80s. I have this on one of my walls... http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html ...makes for fun reading. Just grab a plotter and print it out, if you want. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org