On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:53:22AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 10:47 PM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> 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.