From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 08:06:43 -0800 Subject: [COFF] How much Fortran? In-Reply-To: References: <20200203034729.GN3216@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20200203160643.GO3216@mcvoy.com> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:53:22AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote: > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 10:47 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > > How big was it 30 years ago? In my opinion, tiny compared to C. > > > Be careful, Fortran use is still not tiny (it has always paid my salary, > and continues to do so). Fair enough. I should have said "in my world...". I learned Fortran enough to do some work for my dad, learned about accumulated errors (that's actually pretty fascinating), learned the C/Fortran bindings because I wrote a user space threads library that could be used from Fortran, so I was aware of it. But in the CS department and then later at Sun, everything I came in contact with was in C. So in my world it wasn't a thing. I knew it had a pretty active user base, my buddy Bill Long is on the Fortran steering committee (or whatever it is called) and we'd talk about it. Modern Fortran is apparently a lot more pleasant than what I learned.