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Re: Languages

Bruce Randall Baker <av428@freenet.buffalo.edu> writes:
 
>Funny how things go, Fortran is almost dead, BASIC lives on in lots
 
..FORTRAN almost dead??? Don't tell that to the scientific, number-
crunching community (for whom the language was developed in the first place)
and you might get on the list for a copy of COSMIC from the folks
who are handling the commercializatio of NASA programs...their current
disk has a large number of FORTRAN programs...like about 1500.
The installed program base in this language, just as for COBOL, is simply
too large for it to die or disappear.