• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    2·
    4 months ago

    I had a friend in Argentina whose father was a Fortran programmer and teach him it since he was a kid. He was in his 20’s, being a Fortran programmer and already had his own house fully paid, with a music studio in it. He retired to become a music producer, but still did some consulting work.

    Good luck little Fortran, hope you can learn and enjoy your work.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      4 months ago

      All the best linalg libraries are in FORTRAN.

      Pretty sure numpy hooks into them. I don’t know anyone who uses computers for serious work that doesn’t use FORTRAN. It’s the best.

    • Scribbd@feddit.nl
      1·
      4 months ago

      And it is still living in weather forecasting models used by many weather institutes.

      Source: Work for a weather institute.

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Yk, you can make fun of old programming languages but the average job offer with one of them is.

    Needs to know fortran/cobol

    Pay: 8000€/month + benefits and unlimited sick days

    Compared to the average web dev job offer:

    Needs to know react, redux, angular, PHP (for managing legacy codebases) with 5+ years of experience, needs to be affluent in at least 3 languages and must have a master’s degree in computer science.

    Pay: 1500€/month

    • Kache@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 months ago

      That’s only because the former already implies much of the latter, so they don’t need to repeat it

  • Daxtron2@startrek.website
    0·
    4 months ago

    Little Fortran walks into the living room.

    “Mom, dad. I have something important I need to tell you, but I’m scared you’ll be mad at me”

    “We’ll still love you no matter what honey.”

    “OK, I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I need to come out and say it. Mom and dad, I’m a frontend developer”

    “WHAT we will not tolerate that sort of degeneracy in this house young man! Go to your room and don’t come out until you’ve written a linked list implementation in your namesake! And no more talk of this front end stuff”