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Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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It's definitely not a dead language – a new Fortran front-end has recently been accepted into the LLVM project, joining Clang. So LLVM's only in-tree supported languages (excluding the various IRs) will be C, C++, Objective-C, and Fortran. It had been scheduled for merge into the LLVM monorepo 2 days ago, but has been delayed pending some additional architecture review.

Lots of number crunching code relies on Fortran libraries even today.

Install numpy, it will pull in Fortran stuff.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Google has this thing called “Testing on the Toilet” where they post factoids about Google’s codebase and best practices. I read one and it said FORTRAN is a highly secure language (or there haven’t been any security vulnerabilities found in the language in a while). Devil’s advocate for not writing FORTRAN off completely at first sight.

Note that Fortran on the Flusher last year's April 1st edition of Testing on the Toilet.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Every day we drift further from god.

https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair

Thanks for posting this! I was about to say "it could be worse: it could be COBOL". Especially since every couple of months someone posts an enthusiastic article about COBOL and people get intrigued by it and I feel it's my God-mandated duty to warn them about its mind-numbing unholiness.

COBOL-ON-COGS is hilarious though.

Re: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paradise! We had to wake up a half an hour before we went to bed to use FRTRN 0.1, with punch cards made from rolled-up, discarded newspapers!

> We had to wake up a half an hour before we went to bed I love it

In case you're not aware, it's a riff on an old Monty Python skit (RIP Terry Jones). An absolute classic, that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

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