Thomas D Dial writes: > FORTRAN is somewhat similar, but has a smaller, more stable, and mors > specialized application space and often, I think, is maintained by the > successors of the program users who wrote it originally. A good deal > of it may, by now, have been replaced by C, C++, Python, or some other > newer language.
There are highly optimized and thoroughly debugged scientific and engineering libraries written decades ago in FORTRAN. These are often used in programs written in much newer languages. It's hard to justify porting them because they work so well as-is. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA