Programmer Humor

32576 readers

98 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

cat_programmer@lemmy.ml

904

Little bobby Fortran (jlai.lu)

submitted 4 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

89 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, Fortran isn't even dead. It was updated last year. Weird but it's still a used language.

https://wg5-fortran.org/f2023.html

[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And it is still living in weather forecasting models used by many weather institutes.

Source: Work for a weather institute.

[–] python@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago

We use those too! The weather forecasting models are really important for calculating prices in the German Energy market. My company is even paying people extra for learning Fortran to do these tasks. It's really weird to talk to 20-something y/o people who actively use Fortran.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

And a lot of science libraries.

Source: married to a physicist.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All the best linalg libraries are in FORTRAN.

Pretty sure numpy hooks into them. I don't know anyone who uses computers for serious work that doesn't use FORTRAN. It's the best.

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, and Matlab too I think

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

MATLAB is just scipy for people that wear ties.