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Computer History Museum 🇸🇮

📘 FORTRAN IV Manual (1982), adapted by Rafko Adrinek and published by Iskra Delta! 💖 #FORTRAN was the first widely adopted “standard” programming language, especially popular during the 1960s and 70s — the punch card era. 💾 Back then, it powered massive mainframes, and its legacy still lives on today in modern supercomputer programming! 🚀

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Riley S. Faelan

Pondering if I dare to put #Fortran into my CV. :blobcatthinking:

I can do some Fortran, partly because it keeps coming up in all sorts of #retrocomputing contexts, but, even with Ratfor enhancements, I don't consider it a well-designed or pleasant language, and I'm not sure I can see myself working at a place that deals in new Fortran code now that nice, human-friendly languages such as NumPy and APL have been invented. Besides, 21st century Fortran is a really weird language that doesn't even know what it wants to be when it grows up.

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amen zwa, esq.

The original #LISP had 7 primitives: \(\texttt{cons}\), \(\texttt{car,}\) \(\texttt{cdr}\), \(\texttt{atom}\), \(\texttt{quote}\), \(\texttt{eq}\), and \(\texttt{cond}\). And the original #Smalltalk syntax could fit on a 5×7 card. That meant a novice could learn the syntax in a matter of minutes, and direct all his efforts to learning how properly to wield the power of that Turing-complete language. This was why, in the 1970s and the 1980s, many college freshmen were taught FP in Scheme (a more modern LISP) and many middle school children were taught OO in Smalltalk. These were surely the best "first" #programming languages.

#FORTRAN and #BASIC were simple, too. FORTRAN, the first high-level language, has been in continuous use since the late 1950s by engineers, who are not keyboard warriors. BASIC was invented in the early 1960s for teaching programming to non-STEM students at Dartmouth. It sired a whole generation of self-taught children in the 1980s.

Compare those to C++, Erlang, Python, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, and pretty much every language in popular use today. Most consider Python and JavaScript to be the simplest of modern languages. Yet, they are massive, complex languages. No 10-year-old could teach himself those, nor should he.

The original versions of those classic languages cannot be used to solve modern problems. But they should still be taught to youngsters as their first language. Throwing in the kids' faces a modern enterprise language confuses them and discourages them. Consequently, many novices never attain that state of flow, when the joy of programming gushes forth.

#Simplicity is a virtue. Self-motivated learning is virtuous.

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Arne Babenhauserheide

Writing a commandline tool in #Fortran:
draketo.de/english/free-softwa

In case you want to broaden your #programming skills. Fortran seems to be making a comeback (currently 11 in the Tiobe index: tiobe.com/tiobe-index/fortran/ ).

This is from 2017, written at the end of my Physics PostDoc where I used quite a bit of Fortran and learned to appreciate it much more than I expected.

www.draketo.deWriting a commandline tool in Fortran | Zwillingssterns Weltenwald | 1w6Mo, 04/10/2017 - 22:37 — Draketo Here I want to show you how to write a commandline tool in Fortran. Because Fortran is much better than its reputation — most of all in syntax. I needed a long time to understand that — to get over my predjudices — and I hope I can help you save some of that time.1 This provides a quick-start into Fortran. After finishing it, I... 1w6
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Christian Meesters

Interested in #MPI and #OpenMP parallel programming to speed up your scientific applications written in #C, #Cpp, #Fortran or #Python (with #numpy)?

Attend our course in #Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg University (#JGU) for a 4-day course from 1. April to 4. April 2025! We still have plenty of space available!

See our announcement page for further details and to register: indico.zdv.uni-mainz.de/event/

Note, it is an on-site course.

IndicoParallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP (4-Day Workshop)Dive into the world of high-performance computing with our hands-on workshop, focusing on the programming models MPI and OpenMP. Gain practical experience with Message Passing Interface (MPI) basics and shared memory directives of OpenMP through interactive sessions in C or Fortran. Agenda: A preliminary course outline can be found here. Location: Takes place at the computing centre of the University of Mainz. Detailed travel directions will be provided to accepted participants in advance....
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