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Re: FORTRAN

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From: Dirk Rode
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 12:43
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>> The only good FORTRAN is a dead FORTRAN ???

 Sorry, but 70 % of the whole software for science is written in FORTRAN.
So, you need FORTRAN for Life.
 Others, working in commercial sectors, only work with COBOL.
So you need mostly only 2 languages to work.

(And IBM's /370 macro Assembler ...)

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From: rode@uniol.UUCP (Dirk Rode)
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN
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Date: 26 Oct 89 12:43:35 GMT
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