QFT. I'm probably much younger than you and Fortran is still the language of choice for the flow solvers I use.Kichae Chandramani wrote:Yup, Java was the only language I had to learn in undergrad, too. From the comp sci department. We never actually used it. The thing is, though, that in sciences that write their own programs (so... physics, and some branches of engineering), no one ports code. I've worked with profs who still use code they wrote in the 60s and 70s. We're talking research grade code that's written in COBOL and FORTRAN 77. Hell, I had profs that still actively wrote code in FORTRAN 77!Dinosawer wrote: Not anymore C++ and Python are all the rage now, which explains why the only programming language we officially learn (as opposed to having to figure it out on ourselves) is Java.
Wait.
(I have already compiled a Fortran program, does that count?)
And those languages still have a lot of momentum! I did my masters research using software written in Fortran 90, and so I had to learn Fortran 90 (and 95/2003) in order to modify and extend the code. My supervisor did all of his data visualization in IDL. Because reasons. He put up a bit of a stink when those of us in his research group started doing our visualization in python, because he wouldn't be able to help us if things didn't work!
Post
Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:48 pm
#31