#Programming in legacy languages because, Why not?
#Fortran77
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@heiseonline
Cobol-Entwickler wurden 1999 schonmal gesucht;-)
Und damals gab es die auch kaum noch...
#cobol #Fortran77 <- meine erste Sprache *lol*
```
PROGRAM PuppetMaster
WRITE(6,*) 'My codename is project two-five-zero-one. I am a living, ' //
+ 'thinking entity that was created in the sea of information.'
END
```
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@sbi @DanielaKEngert @sushee @sickeroni I do not think that #Basic and #Fortran77 really helped.
Following up from a conversation about how some CS grads are surprised to find old tech in their new jobs - and don't know how to work with it…
Anyone interested in a miniseries on the YouTube channel about #FORTRAN77 programming?
If 10 people reply "yes" I'll do it. 
Just told to "grow up" and stop using #Fortran77 in #ClimateModels (actually I don't, ours are written in #FORTRAN90) but it has me wondering if there are any #weather + #climate models that don't use #FORTRAN as the core code apart from #UKESM?
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@jared @au_hasard Yeah, I know. Afaik the modern versions like #Fortran95 or later have even parallel computing with OpenMP. I was taught #Fortran77 in 2000 as part of studies at a physics school, but then shifted towards #cpython etc. Besides researchers that use it in science and engineering even today, it'll never die as it's libraries are behind modern libs like #NumPy and packages like #Matlab :).