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- From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Subject: Re: Is FORTRAN a viable language?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.164255.29568@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:42:55 GMT
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- In article <1hqnn7INNfac@shelley.u.washington.edu> chew@accel.aa.washington.edu (Gilbert Chew) writes:
- >Is FORTRAN dead?
- >
- >I myself program in FORTRAN, and I am hoping to
- >eventually purchase a FORTRAN compiler for my
- >own PC (a 386-33, incidentally).
- >
- >However, while perusing the newsgroups for help
- >and information in buying said compiler, I noticed
- >that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about
- >100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup!
- >
-
- Have you seen the Mac commercial with three guys sitting at a help desk,
- one supporting Mac users, the other two supporting Windows users? Two of
- the phones are ringing constantly, the other guy gets one call, which
- turns out to be be a wrong number; the caller had a Windows question.
-
- Seriously, the Internet is heavily dominated by Unix programmers, who are
- much more likely to program in C than DOS programmers. Fortran fills a
- niche and is not likely to go away. If it meets your needs, go on using
- it. If, on the other hand, you find yourself hampered by the constraints
- of the language, look into other languages. On a DOS platform, I would
- check out Pascal.
-
- Barbara Vaughan
-