bill lam wrote: > I remembered I learned WATFOR (not sured under MUSIC or VAX), I supposed > that > should be before FORTRAN 77. Not long along, some member posted a fragment > of > FORTRAN 90(?) code that was remotely resembled a FORTRAN program to me. > I'm > interested to know which version of FORTRAN is now popular? Or FORTRAN > still be > taught in Engineering faculty? >
Fortran is very much alive: it remains the de facto language for scientific (numerical) computing. It continues to be taught in universities in areas like engineering, physics and meterology, or any discipline which uses "high-performance computing". I would guess that most supercomputer program cycles are from Fortran. Fortran is also used unknowingly by millions of non-Fortran users through libraries like LAPACK, which are used for numerical calculations by Mathematica, Maple and MATLAB. Most of the big libraries (e.g. LAPACK, NAG, IMSL) are in F77 with some migration to F90. The Open Source movement tends to use g77, the GNU version. WATFOR started in 1965. The MUSIC version was from around 1970, and was probably WATFIV. The VAX version was much later (I think the first VAX was sold around 1978). Best wishes, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
