Re: NYT disses Fortran


"Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/31fha.html?ref=todayspaper

In addition, the agency's computer systems are antiquated so the
average age is 18 old years that Mr. Montgomery has joked that he is
in the market for Fortran programmers. (To his astonishment, a staff
member told him the agency actually does need experts familiar with
Fortran, the computer language introduced in 1957 and now rarely
used. Some of the agency's machines have been humming along for 28
years.)


Who volunteers to write a nice Letter to the Editor pointing how wrong this
is?

Regards,

Mike Metcalf


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