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Charles Koelbel wrote:
> 
> Announcing a new version of the High Performance Fortran Language
> Specification.  (Finally!)
> 
> REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN

And Ralph L. Place replied:
>OK.  My comment is that this sounds like putting a Ferrari engine in
>a dinasour, sitting on its neck with whip in hand hollering 'Giddyup'.

Not to argue the age of FORTRAN, but how many jobs have you applied for
that don't require proficiency in it?  For so long as we have to be able
to work in this language I'm pleased that people continue to revise and
improve it.

I got my university computer science training from a very avant-garde 
computer science department which eschewed FORTRAN as a dead language
and insisted on teaching us all PASCAL.  Then I had to learn FORTRAN on
my own so I could qualify for employment in Physics and Astronomy.

Until the Computer Science community can convince the scientists and
engineers that they should really forget the language they've been 
programming in for the last umpity-ump years, then "the rumors concerning
the death of FORTRAN will be greatly exaggerated."  to misqoute M. Twain.

-Bill Gawne,  Space Telescope Science Institute