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Why is fortran endangered programming language species?

We all know fortran is a high level programming language but this days its no where to be used

30th Mar 2019, 8:56 AM

Professor CODE

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Can you provide elaborations as to how Fortran is "nowhere to be used" ? Do you simply mean Fortran is less used for mainstream / general development in recent years? Speaking of recent years, the latest revision was just released 2 months ago. http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Fortran+2018

30th Mar 2019, 9:11 AM

Hatsy Rei

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oo... cool thanks Calviղ

30th Mar 2019, 9:33 AM

Prashanth Kumar

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actually fortran is still alive ... its lest release was in 2015 dec many people use fortran till now .... most important < its faster than C > http://www.fortran.com/the-fortran-company-homepage/whats-new/

30th Mar 2019, 9:21 AM

Prashanth Kumar

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2015 news: Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know FORTRAN and assembly languages. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-enginee Prashanth Kumar this could be the reason why fortron upgraded.

30th Mar 2019, 9:29 AM

Calviղ