From what I see helping some friends not well versed with programming doing their PhDs, FORTRAN still has a lot of penetration with scientists. Lots of climate models are FORTRAN code.
Also, through helping them I can see the dire state of scientific code, it's a mess, if departments had the budget to employ 1-2 professional programmers to help them mentor staff it could be extremely helpful for science code to be more easily shared and reasoned about, some of the code I've seen is basically throw away code after the contributors aren't around anymore...
Also, through helping them I can see the dire state of scientific code, it's a mess, if departments had the budget to employ 1-2 professional programmers to help them mentor staff it could be extremely helpful for science code to be more easily shared and reasoned about, some of the code I've seen is basically throw away code after the contributors aren't around anymore...