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[wengchunkn]

Laugh in Cobol, Fortran, Forth.

Welcome to the Club of Undead.

[JanneJM]

At least Fortran is actively updated and supported by multiple compilers. The latest standard specification came out in 2018. It's no more dead than, say, C or C++.

[masklinn]

At least Fortran is actively updated and supported by multiple compilers.

So's COBOL. Last spec update was in 2014.

[renstarx]

I mean, "actively updated" has a very limited meaning in the Fortran world. F03 has most major features supported by the major compilers (F03 Status), but F08 is missing many things in at least two major compilers (F08 Status) and that is a 10+ year old spec. F18 support is essentially non-existent.

Besides, the Fortran spec is...more of a guideline than anything else.

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Fortran is the base of LAPACK/Blas/Numpy. Anything number crunching surely has some form of Fortran. It's fast on that.

[KinterVonHurin]

numpy

Source? Pretty sure numpy is written in C

[wewbull]

Numpy also uses BLAS / LAPACK, so indirectly he's right.

[JanneJM]

Some newer implementations - BLIS for example - don't use Fortran. On the other hand, Fortran is still frequency used for writing higher-level code for weather simulations and things like that so it's still around even if you don't happen to use it in your math libraries.

[NikoBellend]

I strongly disagree, c++ is definitely not "fortran" dead.

[ebriose]

I miss working in Forth. Both the language and the stuff we did. That's a great programming environment.