On Wed, 2026-06-17 at 10:59 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > COBOL is "dead" because academia said it was. The price you pay for > > not letting the ivory tower masters drive the bus. > > UC Berkeley's CS department stopped teaching COBOL and Fortran, while each > of those was still a degree requirement in some UC Berkeley degrees!
While not directly affiliated with UC Berkeley, Damian Rouson, who works at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, which is operated by UC Berkeley, is one of the lead developers of the Coarray system of SPMD parallel programming in Fortran (this was originally started by Bob Numrich at Cray, proposed for the Fortran standard in 1998 by John Reid, added as a project in 2008, and is now part of the standard). He is head of the Computer Languages and Systems Software Group at LBL, teaches classes on campus and UC Berkeley, adjunct faculty at UC San Diego, with former positions at Stanford, CUNY, and the University of Maryland.
