(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4192) WG5 Las Vegas Feb-2010/J3 m191 minutes 10-144
Toon Moene
toon
Tue Feb 23 16:53:05 EST 2010
Van Snyder wrote:
> The only way to make Fortran attractive to young people is to keep it on
> a track to becoming and remaining a modern language
No.
My experience with people coming fresh from University (i.e., half my
age) is that slowly, they begin to see that there is not *that* much
difference between the MatLab they used at the University and Fortran.
Yes, there's the compiler-vs-interpreter thing and the small differences
in syntax, and the fact that you don't have that many readily available
packages that are soooo useful in MatLab.
Young people are not stupid - on the contrary, they're flexible. To
quote "The Soul Of A New Machine": "Let's hire people fresh from college
- they don't know yet what's impossible."
As for your management's project to rewrite your Fortran code into C++:
I've already referred to that to *my* management as the "JPL project
with a break-even time well into the 22nd century". Now tell me it
ain't so :-)
Cheers,
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