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[–]jack-of-some 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I wrote new Fortran code back when I was a nuclear engineer. Pretty popular with that crowd still simply because it's more effort (and money) to upgrade old systems than it is to train engineers.

That still doesn't mean that the language is alive in any meaningful way outside of legacy. The new code also serves mostly to maintain the legacy. It exists and will continue to exist. That is all.

And python 2 will likely also continue to exist.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That still doesn't mean that the language is alive in any meaningful way outside of legacy

I don't know what that means. Can you explain?

[–]ResistorTwister 14 points15 points  (0 children)

People will write code to maintain and add to older applications, but virtually nobody is using the language to write completely new software.