One reason Fortran does well is the extensive collection of legacy code from the previous decades. You don’t rewrite code that took man decades to produce, is debugged, and known to work well.

There’s an old saying: “I don’t know what programming language scientists and engineers will use in the 22nd century, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” FORTRAN was among the first ...

At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank looks from the more junior witches and warlocks.

"At least people in my work are moving away from it. We still have millions of lines of code in it, so we will still have Fortran code 20 years from now, but for new projects, people don't use ...

Absoft Corp. (http://www.absoft.com) has announced general availability of the new Absoft Pro Fortran 11.1 for Mac OS X. The new version advances parallel code ...

and explains from five points whether Fortran will be maintained in the future. compiler to optimize the code, but it had many limitations. Due to this limitation, it is difficult in Fortran to ...

The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around ... and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran. "This is the ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn ...

The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around ... and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran. "This is the ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn ...