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by fnordfnordfnord 4673 days ago
I used to work for a physicist who (still) codes in Fortran. I tried to show him Python. He said, "That's nice, use Python if that's what you like." But he always used fortran. It wasn't usually a big deal to translate between the two. He was giving out the big ideas, we were making use of them. To this day, he is still doing physics, still using fortran, still publishing papers.