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I had to learn Fortran for my thesis because it's the industry standard in particle physics
How long ago? ROOT (and other frameworks like GEANT) using C++ has been the standard for over 15 years, but probably longer. I think my advisor was of the last generation that had to write in Fortran.
Currently lmao. I'm using those tools as well but some specific event generators I'm using are in Fortran still
thank you for your service 🫡
runs to look out window
My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!
Oh no, whew, that's a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.
(As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)
[COBOL has entered the chat.]
Capitalism will never let a programming language die, if it's still less expensive than an alternative.