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by BlueTemplar 1899 days ago
And young people are still learning Fortran today, though it's not the most common language any more, and we tend to learn several different ones.
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I didn't learn fortran in university, but I did have to learn it for a job. It's still THE language for scientific computing. So in any job in or adjacent to scientific computing, you're bound to run into fortran.