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dagw · 2019-09-24 07:20:34+00:00

And by last version you mean any Fortran since Fortran 90.

hdjdbtbgwjsn | karma 80 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2020-09-13 17:02:51+00:00

I bet the old Fortran versions are supported and compile decades after the 'newer' languages stop being supported...

jfoutz | karma 8636 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2017-06-29 17:25:25+00:00

Right? All the core models are going to be FORTRAN2110 because later editions weren't widely adopted.

venuur | karma 58 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2018-05-10 18:53:41+00:00

Fortran is still going strong with Fortran 2008. And even better, it’s backwards compatible still with Fortran 77.

dbdjfjrjvebd | karma 243 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2019-10-15 15:16:50+00:00

Fortran has maintained nearly full backwards compatibility.

sadfklsjlkjwt | karma 159 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2019-10-30 16:14:18+00:00

Fortran from the 1980s is still supported...

bberrry | karma 618 | avg karma 3.81 · | 2019-04-20 10:59:51+00:00

What's the degree of backward compatibility with FORTRAN releases? I imagine most FORTRAN codebases as being huge and old, so it makes me wonder how many can adopt the latest versions.

Pandabob | karma 702 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2020-01-22 18:36:49

Ah, Fortran, how I miss you. Unfortunately it seems like the last commit to this project is from three years ago.

labster | karma 9935 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2024-01-12 04:36:10

Do people actually use modern versions of Fortran though? I learned it in university in 2004, and we used Fortran 90 because F95 was considered “too new”, and one still encountered a lot of Fortran 77.

sloaken | karma 581 | avg karma 0.81 · | 2020-04-20 21:01:55+00:00

Oldie but a goodie: FORTRAN It has evolved a lot over the years.

kergonath | karma 7728 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2024-01-12 12:08:01

I’d evolved since then. Support for Fortran 2018 is reasonable in gfortran and you can count on almost all of Fortran 2008 and before.

htrp | karma 3449 | avg karma 2.55 · | 2023-02-03 11:03:25

Maybe the new FORTRAN

yjftsjthsd-h | karma 28510 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2019-03-09 21:15:42+00:00

I would argue that even for the time early versions were not particularly ergonomic or nice to work with. And yes, I will actually be the first to defend modern Fortran; calling out older versions specifically was a very intentional choice on my part. Granted, I'm unclear on how much the newer variants are used; legacy code bases form a pretty big backlog.

pletnes | karma 1915 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2017-07-31 04:41:16+00:00

Fortran is forever.

walshemj | karma 4980 | avg karma 0.65 · | 2017-02-15 20:34:22+00:00

I would have said Fortran is still the King :-)

cestith | karma 2277 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2020-02-04 23:53:29+00:00

Fortran itself is still under development. It has updated standards from 1990, 1995, 2003, 2008, and 2018. Compilers are mostly compliant with 2003 or 2008 with 2018 features still being added. http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Compiler+Support+for+Mod...

For people doing serious work in certain fields it's still a popular choice. It's still in use in industry and is a must in some academic settings. It's a bit of a niche, but then most things are.

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krzyk | karma 2582 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2021-01-24 09:05:55+00:00

And take a look how Fortran 77 code died out. It is still used as e.g. dependency for numpy. And there are guys at my uni that write in Fortran 90.

kergonath | karma 7728 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2021-07-02 05:01:16

It hasn’t been FORTRAN for about 30 years now.

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2020-07-15 18:17:04+00:00

Including Fortran.

h4nkoslo | karma 520 | avg karma 1.99 · | 2016-12-18 20:12:07

The latest major Fortran version, circa 2003, is at least as modern as something like C++.