On Thursday 23 June 2011 18:23:58 pk wrote: > On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. > > Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die > > because people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a proper, > > more modern language :-P > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas > (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" languages doesn't cut > it... :-)
"FORmula TRANslator". it keeps your lights on, as likely as not. Last I looked, electricity power grids were kept alive with fortran doing the calculations. Mind you, I am going back a little way. -- Rgds Peter
