I'm actually a Node/full-stack JS guy myself (I know, ick) but my father, a now-retired environmental scientist and former civil servant, coded in FORTRAN every workday for 20+ years.
Now I'm looking to spend more time with him, generally, and thought it'd be fun to go through some of his old materials/documentation and learn a little bit of the language myself. I figure it'd be a neat way for me to get more insight into his former day-to-day work than I ever did growing up (just recently started coding) while getting some exposure to CS history in the process.
My question: Is there any sort of market for FORTRAN programmers anymore? I've heard of COBOL programmers fetching pretty good prices because so many legacy applications depend on it and there's a dearth of new talent - does a similar situation exist for FORTRAN?
If not, that's OK, just already dreaming about a family business refactoring legacy code! "LastName & Sons Software Development" has a nice ring to it ;)
Now I'm looking to spend more time with him, generally, and thought it'd be fun to go through some of his old materials/documentation and learn a little bit of the language myself. I figure it'd be a neat way for me to get more insight into his former day-to-day work than I ever did growing up (just recently started coding) while getting some exposure to CS history in the process.
My question: Is there any sort of market for FORTRAN programmers anymore? I've heard of COBOL programmers fetching pretty good prices because so many legacy applications depend on it and there's a dearth of new talent - does a similar situation exist for FORTRAN?
If not, that's OK, just already dreaming about a family business refactoring legacy code! "LastName & Sons Software Development" has a nice ring to it ;)