Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:08:04 -0600 (CST) From: Mark <markm@online.dct.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall) (fwd) Message-ID: <199812170008.SAA22273@online.dct.com>
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----- Forwarded message from Nate Williams -----
> > I don't know of *ANY* University that teaches Fortran to Comp. Sci
> > students. Fortran is a dead language, and is only used by engineers
> > that have already existing Fortran code.
>
> ForTran is still a required class for engineering students. With good
> reason. It's not dead, it's just not widely used outside of engineering.
Not in any engineering school I've looked at recently. None of those
where I interviewed students this year had Fortran as a required course.
----- End of forwarded message from Nate Williams -----
Didn't look at Michigan Tech, did ya... :) Still required for most
engineering, and I took it (required) for CS. and it was a term long class,
and we used it for numerical methods.
Some of us still have to deal with it...
--
Mark Maurer markm@dct.com Programmer: Digital Magic Interactive
mwmaurer@mtu.edu Senior, Michigan Tech University
"The OOP folk think they are about to inherit the world, while I am becoming
increasingly convinced they are becoming obsolete" -- Bob Cringely
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