But it didn’t take long for the book’s charm and wit to get me past that and buy into its premise and style. I was talking to one of our computer support types, who made the statement that FORTRAN IS DEAD." - all around me, these "computer support types" have the attention span of a 2 year-old and one wonders if they can read beyond bits and bytes :-)īut putting all jokes aside, you may consider forwarding the Dedo article to this guy who made the "IS DEAD" remark.For reasons I can’t quite put my finger on (it may have something to do with all the Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett references I saw when reading about the book), I came to The Scriptlings with a degree of trepidation. You may be familiar with this thread at and the online link to a PDF article by Craig Dedo on "Debunking the Myths About Fortran". I did not gnash my teeth, I simply did what any good Fortran programmer would do, I felt sorry for a lower life form and got on with coding. I did not cry, he was young and does not realize that Fortran will last till 42 is a real number again only one and they will get out of it shortly. I am now installing Fortran back to get the integration correct.ĭuring this process I was talking to one of our computer support types, who made the statement that FORTRAN IS DEAD, I mumbled in my beard, Intel etc.
It has been a nightmare, the CAB files were corrupted. I have spent several days trying to get a registered version of VS 2013 Professional working on my Dell computer. with ability to link Fortran with ANY language it make me laugh when i hear folks converting large programs to C++ or other languages (which generally also changes the programs).don't they realize through linking you can use the strengths of ALL languages?!! (watch at 1:00) BAM! all ya gots ta do is hit em on the head! :-) So point is when you hear 'Fortran is Dead' simply think of the Monty Python Holy Grail scene where the guy is walking with the cart 'Bring out your Dead' and the guy is thrown into the cart and he says 'I ain't Dead Yet' Heck there's even a guy posting up a site trying to cover up the death of fortran! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!.don't tell anyone your secret about the death of Fortran?!! It might make some of us old folks cry :-( I mean some folks are even foolishly still writing BOOKS on MODERN Fortran (Markus 'Modern Fortran in Practice' (2012) and Clerman 'Modern Fortran Style an Useage' (2012) & Metcalf "Modern Fortran Explained') Must be a bunch of old folks (like me!) in nursing homes (not yet!) who do it for the historical or is it hysterical purposes?
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