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by piva00 831 days ago
No, not at all, I didn't want to imply that, simply noted that Fortran is still used a lot in science and that scientists would greatly benefit from programmers to mentor them on how to write code in whatever language in a better way.
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https://software-carpentry.org/ has been around for over 10 years.

Also, software engineers without the requisite background are usually worse for a project (and for teaching researchers) than anyone else.