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I think it's the oldest joke in cs: "I don't know what we will be programming in the year 3000, but I know it will be called FORTRAN"

My own renaissance came via Jetson Nano where CUDA FORTRAN has some nice examples for image processing via convolution kernals. It's blazingly fast: both design time and run time!

This short film from 1982 shows the love scientists feel for "the infantile disorder":

The Beginnings of FORTRAN (Complete)

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

parent ArtWomb 3 years ago

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