On 07/12/2006, at 10:37 AM, NAKATA Maho wrote (in part):
I'm programming for my researches for proof of concept, using C++, Fortran and perl etc. Some of you may be suprised still we are using Fortran77.Do you belive that there are some 30 years old codes are still alive and very, very much trusted?
Some of the coders are still around, too. ;)Back in the days of punch-card queues [1], Fortran was very reliable, excellent for running transforms and crunching heavy numbers. I'm not surprised it's stiil useful.
It was never elegant, though. Pascal is beautiful.from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN[1] As my kids say, "When Mum was young, when dinosaurs roamed the earth."
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