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I remember reading somewhere that a Real Programmer can write a Fortran program in any language :-) Phil Joe Krahn writes: > > > Kevin Cowtan wrote: > > I am comming to the conclusion that the merits of a language (or > > otherwise) are pretty much irrelevent when it comes to what is popular. > > More important issues are: > > 1. What are other people using? > > 2. What are students learning? > > 3. What are the libraries written in? > > > > I asked if Fortran is popular, not if it is good, because points 1 and 2 > are directly related to popularity. The future answer to point 3 also > relates to popularity. > > Also, the C interoperability features of F2003 will make it more > practical to mix Fortran and C (or C++). > > Joe Krahn
