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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I had to learn Fortran for my thesis because it's the industry standard in particle physics

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How long ago? ROOT (and other frameworks like GEANT) using C++ has been the standard for over 15 years, but probably longer. I think my advisor was of the last generation that had to write in Fortran.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the last generation to write FORTRAN

    runs to look out window

    My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!

    Oh no, whew, that's a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.

    (As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)

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