whm1974 wrote:After hearing about issues such as this, I wonder if users of laboratory equipment should write the software themselves.
Why do you think FORTRAN still exists?
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whm1974 wrote:After hearing about issues such as this, I wonder if users of laboratory equipment should write the software themselves.
Captain Ned wrote:whm1974 wrote:After hearing about issues such as this, I wonder if users of laboratory equipment should write the software themselves.
Why do you think FORTRAN still exists?
whm1974 wrote:Captain Ned wrote:whm1974 wrote:After hearing about issues such as this, I wonder if users of laboratory equipment should write the software themselves.
Why do you think FORTRAN still exists?
Yes but how many end users write applications themselves?
bthylafh wrote:Go study.
just brew it! wrote:whm1974 wrote:Captain Ned wrote:Why do you think FORTRAN still exists?
Yes but how many end users write applications themselves?
Enough to create much of the existing Linux ecosystem?bthylafh wrote:Go study.
Seconded.
just brew it! wrote:Users of lab equipment tend to be scientists and engineers, many of whom will have at least a passing familiarity with software development.
I suspect most of the custom stuff is coded in C (not FORTRAN) though, at least for the front-end control/monitoring functions. There may still be a fair bit of FORTRAN lurking in the analysis back-end code though.
just brew it! wrote:Do not bother with FORTRAN now (if ever). Get a solid footing in fundamentals using a widely used language first.
Learn FORTRAN later if you need it for a paying gig.
You're like the dog in "Up!".
SQUIRREL!
Waco wrote:There are pockets of Fortran (of all types) in the wild but learning it won't be useful in general. Learn it if you need it down the road.
Waco wrote:just brew it! wrote:Do not bother with FORTRAN now (if ever). Get a solid footing in fundamentals using a widely used language first.
Learn FORTRAN later if you need it for a paying gig.
You're like the dog in "Up!".
SQUIRREL!
This! There are pockets of Fortran (of all types) in the wild but learning it won't be useful in general. Learn it if you need it down the road.
JBI wrote:It also does absolutely nothing towards achieving his goal of developing games
just brew it! wrote:Waco wrote:just brew it! wrote:Do not bother with FORTRAN now (if ever). Get a solid footing in fundamentals using a widely used language first.
Learn FORTRAN later if you need it for a paying gig.
You're like the dog in "Up!".
SQUIRREL!
This! There are pockets of Fortran (of all types) in the wild but learning it won't be useful in general. Learn it if you need it down the road.
It also does absolutely nothing towards achieving his goal of developing games, because no sane developer would be coding games in FORTRAN these days. (Where I'd define "these days" as "since the early 1980s".)
whm1974 wrote:In that case I'll just stick with C++ and a few suitable scripting languages. Maybe take a look at the Godot gaming engine?
Captain Ned wrote:whm1974 wrote:In that case I'll just stick with C++ and a few suitable scripting languages. Maybe take a look at the Godot gaming engine?
Before you do anything you need to acquire some impulse control and stop looking for the new shiny thing. You'll never get through your coursework if you can't stick solely to what NEEDS to be done.
whm1974 wrote:In that case I'll just stick with C++ and a few suitable scripting languages. Maybe take a look at the Godot gaming engine?