[photios]

> Now a question: Since we're obviously thousands of times better at producing compilers than we were fifteen years ago, so much so that a single undergraduate can write a passable one in four months, why hasn't IBM invested millions of dollars and hundreds of programmer-years to produce a super FORTRAN I compiler that's thousands of times better than the FORTRAN H compiler?

s/FORTRAN I/Mythos/ for the 2026 version of this.

[iberator]

This article is fake.

Intel Fortran Compiler and IBM XL Fortran compilers are still developed and very well funded

[inigyou]

But they did invest billions in a super-Opus, which they called Mythos.