Re: Help from fellow Fortran Users

From: Charles Russell (STOPworworSPAM_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:53:25 -0600

"Jim Klein" wrote
> The presenter said Fortran at which the
> department head winced and commented that Fortran is no longer being
> taught and that we should be using a "modern" language or we will have
> trouble supporting the code.

Am I wrong in thinking that "portability" in the C world, and even more so
in the C++ world, means only that the code can be ported with less trouble
than to rewrite it? Whereas I routinely use fortran written 20 or 30 years
ago that compiles and runs on my current box with no changes whatever. And
you can't beat a few decades of extensive use to squeeze out the bugs.

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