Re: Surprise

Luka Djigas wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:18:42 -0600, "J. F. Cornwall"
<JCornwall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

kronecker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Gosh, this was a big surprise. I though Fortran was dead as a Dodo!
Why are people still using it? I was a great fan of it until about
1997 when I moved to Matlab...then LabView. Why the need to resurect
Fortran? Yes, I know C is ***, has no complex numbers etc but that's
not an excuse.


K.
Resurrect? Riggggghhhhhttttttttt.......

Nice trolling attempt. Well, actually, it was a rather lame attempt. On the off chance you were actually serious, we're still using Fortran because (a) it does what we want it to do, (b) we have millions of lines of code fully operational and we have no need or desire to change it to some other language, and (c) it's far from dead, has never been anywhere close to dead, and is not a candidate for being dead anytime in the near (by geologic scales) future.

J.

I always liked the part about fortran 'being dead' ;-)
It was allegely 'dead' in the 70ties, then in the 80ties, then in the
...

But, better to stop here, and not to give the troll any more
encouragement.

At least, this guy admits to being nearly as poorly informed about C as about Fortran.
.