On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 22:09:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/
Some good information there!
Especially comments:
George Michaelson • a day ago
One of the saddest moments of my career in computer centre
helpdesk was talking to a chemical engineering student whose PhD
basically evaporated in smoke, as I showed them the 'interesting'
experimental results of their model were the outcome of using
un-initialized global common in a huge fortran program they'd
written.