Little Fortran walks into the living room.
“Mom, dad. I have something important I need to tell you, but I’m scared you’ll be mad at me”
“We’ll still love you no matter what honey.”
“OK, I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I need to come out and say it. Mom and dad, I’m a frontend developer”
“WHAT we will not tolerate that sort of degeneracy in this house young man! Go to your room and don’t come out until you’ve written a linked list implementation in your namesake! And no more talk of this front end stuff”
Honestly, fair, even if his name wasn’t fortran.
Ada is good name for girl child
Ada is a feminine name. The Ada language is named after Ada Lovelace.
Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth
I had a friend in Argentina whose father was a Fortran programmer and teach him it since he was a kid. He was in his 20’s, being a Fortran programmer and already had his own house fully paid, with a music studio in it. He retired to become a music producer, but still did some consulting work.
Good luck little Fortran, hope you can learn and enjoy your work.
Yk, you can make fun of old programming languages but the average job offer with one of them is.
Needs to know fortran/cobol
Pay: 8000€/month + benefits and unlimited sick days
Compared to the average web dev job offer:
Needs to know react, redux, angular, PHP (for managing legacy codebases) with 5+ years of experience, needs to be affluent in at least 3 languages and must have a master’s degree in computer science.
Pay: 1500€/month
That’s only because the former already implies much of the latter, so they don’t need to repeat it
But imagine how awesome it would be if you hire a Fortran guy, and he’s literally Fortran.
“I was born for this!”
I mean, Fortran isn’t even dead. It was updated last year. Weird but it’s still a used language.
All the best linalg libraries are in FORTRAN.
Pretty sure numpy hooks into them. I don’t know anyone who uses computers for serious work that doesn’t use FORTRAN. It’s the best.
Yep, and Matlab too I think
And it is still living in weather forecasting models used by many weather institutes.
Source: Work for a weather institute.
JavaScript was actually invented in 1845 by John JavaScript
And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps
In 10 days and 10 nights
Imagine calling your kid KnockoutJS.
