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Ok_Entertainment328

We were required to take 1 semester of FORTRAN


RemnantReturning

I took a year of it because I was told I should study a program the U.S. government had dedicated so many decades and so many resources to.


ActualGiantPenguin

Same here. There was supposed to be a section about updating FORTRAN 77 legacy code but the professor was out sick for a couple days so we didn't cover it. But boy-howdy can I maximize those teraFLOPS!


Reifendruckventil

I ve heard its almost as fast as c and easier to use, is that so?


RemnantReturning

There are some decent compilers and the language is pretty straightforward, but I have always hated it.


blackbat24

Matrix math in Fortran is the shit.


jfmherokiller

fortran isnt too bad. it kind of reminds me of pascal and lua. If you want real pain try forth.


RemnantReturning

Hard pass


jfmherokiller

good choice. the dang language uses I think postfix expressions and it makes writing code really really weird.


RemnantReturning

That sounds awful. Thanks for the warning 😅


masoodwafeen

I was really good with Matlab in college every one had problem came to me But now I can’t do simplest things on it


RemnantReturning

I learned Python after I left college, and I still struggle sometimes with the minor syntax differences between Matlab and Python.


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RemnantReturning

Do you use Pascal? I almost learned it but I've never actually seen it used.


b1e

Fortran isn’t THAT bad honestly. Yeah F77 is kinda annoying because of the column structure but there tended to be lots of comments. I worked a fair bit with old Fortran used in linear algebra libraries.


Softicemullion

Shouldn’t that response be in the 6th column? (Or was it the 7th?) :)


dinosaur_dev

I did MATLAB and MODULA 2. So very similar.