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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: LorKorub on 30 August 2002, 14:45

Title: FORTRAN 77/90 fans??
Post by: LorKorub on 30 August 2002, 14:45

I find this language to be very peculiar, and I've been dabbling it it recently, making simple fuctional programs that incorporate numerous mathematical routines (based on my *LIMITED* math skills.) I was just wondering if anyone has any experiece with this stuff, and could explain where you might go with knowing this language.

Also, if anyone can recommend any good books...

Title: FORTRAN 77/90 fans??
Post by: voidmain on 30 August 2002, 23:02

I used to program professionally in FORTRAN on mainframe and UNIX servers. Mostly FORTRAN77 but also some 66 and some 90. I think FORTRAN is a very easy language "as easy as BASIC or even easier". It is extremely good at math. There is an extensive list of math functions which makes it a popular language for scientific work.

I used to work in a weather shop and wrote FORTRAN programs for things like calculating the probability of different icing conditions at each flight level for a given location at a given time of year based on historical data. Or calculating atmospheric ash content at specific altitudes at each degree of earths latitde after a major volcano eruption. And be able to map those findings (mapping part usually was done using another language such as PV-WAVE).

Title: FORTRAN 77/90 fans??
Post by: choasforages on 31 August 2002, 05:31

hmmm, FORTRAN, maybe the langague that my calc uses is realated to it, ill post some code in a new post