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On Feb 14, 2007, at 15:01, bryan rasmussen wrote: > On 2/14/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...> wrote: >> Dead or dying. CORBA is dead. DOS, Cobol and Fortran are dying. I >> teach >> at an engineering school, and I'm one of the few people there >> (including >> among the faculty) who knows anything about Fortran. I don't know >> anyone >> who still uses it, though probably there are still a few physics >> professors who are happily coding away in Fortran, but they'll all >> retire in the next few few years. > > I was at a party about 3 years ago where a 22 year old physics student > told me that the only language he knew was Fortran and it was quite > widely used in his discipline. I think it had something to do with > astronomy. Yes, as far as I know cosmologist still use loads of Fortran, and from what I'm told new libraries are being added with some frequency. The last one I asked even said she liked it :) -- Robin Berjon ........................................................................ Change is inevitable except from a vending machine.
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