• Tar_Alcaran
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    2759 months ago

    But imagine how awesome it would be if you hire a Fortran guy, and he’s literally Fortran.

  • konalt
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    1789 months ago

    JavaScript was actually invented in 1845 by John JavaScript

  • @[email protected]
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    1409 months ago

    Little Fortran walks into the living room.

    “Mom, dad. I have something important I need to tell you, but I’m scared you’ll be mad at me”

    “We’ll still love you no matter what honey.”

    “OK, I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I need to come out and say it. Mom and dad, I’m a frontend developer”

    “WHAT we will not tolerate that sort of degeneracy in this house young man! Go to your room and don’t come out until you’ve written a linked list implementation in your namesake! And no more talk of this front end stuff”

  • @[email protected]
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    799 months ago

    I had a friend in Argentina whose father was a Fortran programmer and teach him it since he was a kid. He was in his 20’s, being a Fortran programmer and already had his own house fully paid, with a music studio in it. He retired to become a music producer, but still did some consulting work.

    Good luck little Fortran, hope you can learn and enjoy your work.

      • @[email protected]
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        119 months ago

        Looking up, in the US its have an average salary of 100k at year. Not sure how that compares with other programming languages. He worked for an oil company, so I guess he had an above average salary for that.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      My first cat was called Rails, but he scaped home to never be see again. The second Ruby, but she died the next day we adopted her. The third one, Rails 2, but we call him Rails because is shorter, he’s 10 yo now.

  • I Cast Fist
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    649 months ago

    You know what, if I have a boy one day, I’ll name him Pascal. Hopefully, he won’t develop a lisp

    • Papamousse
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      269 months ago

      I learnt COBOL (I’m old) it’s a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

      MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

      and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it’s done automatically pretty well.

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        I was looking into learning COBOL some years ago, because i found that verbosity interesting.

        And it seemed like there’s not many libs and toolboxes out there, compared to the major languages that has libs for everything, so I couldn’t really use it for small projects.

        • @[email protected]
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          129 months ago

          The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

          • @[email protected]
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            89 months ago

            That’s easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.

            /S

  • @[email protected]
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    569 months ago

    This kid’s full name is Fortran Sucksdontlearnit Johnson. His parents actually hated Fortran. Imagine the disappointment they’re about to experience.

    • Scribbd
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      309 months ago

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

      Source: Work for a weather institute.

      • Python
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        139 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      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.

  • Presi300
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    Yk, you can make fun of old programming languages but the average job offer with one of them is.

    Needs to know fortran/cobol

    Pay: 8000€/month + benefits and unlimited sick days

    Compared to the average web dev job offer:

    Needs to know react, redux, angular, PHP (for managing legacy codebases) with 5+ years of experience, needs to be affluent in at least 3 languages and must have a master’s degree in computer science.

    Pay: 1500€/month

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      That’s only because the former already implies much of the latter, so they don’t need to repeat it