Published on 12, July, 2020
There seems to be no other Thread (upon NAS) discussing this as a Topic, or Hobby, or its fancies... despite everyone who can read this actually doing it or using it.
Thanks DC I have learned something I never knew. You guys are very clever you know! I'm very impressed.
All I ever learnt was Basic and Fortran back in the dinosaur days of the 70's.
Good memories of Fortran. First language i was taught. Started with punched cards, wrapped in elastic bands and proper lineprinter printouts
Moved onto Basic, Pascal, integrated development environments and the modern junk.
Lack of recent experience.
Knowledge out of date.
Lack of relevant references.
Spent many years in family care work.
Poor health.
Several suicide attempts.
Autism and anti social behaviour.
I prefer maths & stats to computing.
At this moment I am lying in bed, almost paralysed with severe backache.
Etc.
Robert124, laddie49,
*cough*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_2018
Fortran is probably still being used on massively parallel supercomputer systems for modelling things like weather (or nuclear warhead detonation...).
I am puzzled, Robert124.
If you are already well versed in this sort of thing, why are you not currently working at a software outfit?
Yep I used punched cards at Uni. The computer was massive and filled a room!