Humour

[JohnNichols]

Dear Steve:

I have spent several days trying to get a registered version of VS 2013 Professional working on my Dell computer. It has been a nightmare, the CAB files were corrupted. Finally just sorted out the mess. I am now installing Fortran back to get the integration correct.

During this process I was talking to one of our computer support types, who made the statement that FORTRAN IS DEAD, I mumbled in my beard, Intel etc... and was told .. only one and they will get out of it shortly.

I did not laugh, poor taste

I did not cry, he was young and does not realize that Fortran will last till 42 is a real number again

I did not gnash my teeth, I simply did what any good Fortran programmer would do, I felt sorry for a lower life form and got on with coding.

JMN

[JohnNichols]

Daryl:

I sent you a direct email - it will wing its way in the morning -

Sorry I missed the email

JMN

[FortranFan]

Apologies to those who noticed this at comp.lang.fortran:

A little Fortran fun at Fox Trot: http://www.foxtrot.com/2014/10/12/baking-f/

[Edgardo_Doerner]

I am sorry to revive this thread, but it could be possible to obtain a larger image of the "Fortran is not dead" phrase, I would like to use it as wallpaper, hehehe.

Well, I have a Ph.D. in Physics and I am professor at a University in Chile. I started to enter seriously into the programming world during my Ph.D. studies (Monte Carlo simulations of particle transport on matter) and the platform is written in FORTRAN 77. At the beginning even my father in law was surprised by that fact ("I used Fortran when I was your age!!" -- he always said, hahaha, I started my Ph.D. with ca. 23 at 2009, now I am 28), but soon after I started my research I felt very comfortable using Fortran. At least for me is far more clear to use than C/C++, hehehe.

Now I am entering in the parallel programming world and I am adapting some codes using OpenMP, and again I feel more comfortable using Fortran... and in the case of GPU programming (using OpenCL) I use interop capabilities between Fortran and C to maintain the main structure of my codes in Fortran... in my case the most difficult part is the initialization of the data needed for my simulations, and therefore it have been very efficient to maintain that part in Fortran and transfer the proper simulation section to C and then use OpenCL.

Well, as I am clearly not an expert programmer but I would like to say that this forum have been a key part of my scientific career, having such a nice place to learn and solve doubts about this language is really great, and reading blogs like "Doctor Fortran" encourages me to continue learning and improving my skills...

[JVanB]

I suppose everyone here is familiar with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-hmzurm4SE

[Scott_L_]

Send me your tired, your poor, your Fortran codes yearning to be free form...

just need a statue of liberty jpeg to add to this, but that's too high tech for an old fart.