Every language has its niche
Every language has its niche
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I had to learn Fortran for my thesis because it's the industry standard in particle physics
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Physics changes with retirements. FORTRAN should received it's gold watch and shown the door about 20 years ago now.
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There's no distinct generations of either physicists or codes that all retire at the same time
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How long ago? ROOT (and other frameworks like GEANT) using C++ has been the standard for over 15 years, but probably longer. I think my advisor was of the last generation that had to write in Fortran.
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Currently lmao. I'm using those tools as well but some specific event generators I'm using are in Fortran still
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thank you for your service 🫡
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the last generation to write FORTRAN
runs to look out window
My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!
Oh no, whew, that's a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.
(As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)
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[COBOL has entered the chat.]
Capitalism will never let a programming language die, if it's still less expensive than an alternative.
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A lot of COBOL programs are still running to this day.
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