Loved the last sentence, personally I don't know about the current penetration of Fortran, but how many ancient z/OS shops do not run COBOL. Apart from those who have PL/1 of course.
"Along with NASA's aging fleet of spacecraft, many businesses still rely on ancient languages such as Fortran or COBOL for specialized tasks and critical infrastructure." Cheers, Paul Gillis -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, 2 November 2015 5:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you - for Voyager . Job For Shane? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/31/brush_up_on_your_fortran/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
