Fortran Is Not Dead, Unfortunately

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From: Olaf Titz
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:52

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>  As far as an answer to the question "Is Fortran dead?", I can only
>  suggest that if the availability of GNU Fortran doesn't kill it,
>  nothing will!  :-)

Well, just this morning, I was asked for advice by a math student
which of the two beginner programming courses he should take -
FORTRAN or PASCAL. I do not repeat here what I explained to him why he
should take Pascal, I assume you know the arguments ;-) but the fact
remains that universities today still offer beginner programming
courses in Fortran. Sigh :-(

MfG,
        Olaf
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