19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Fortran first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“required FORTRAN, but my only gleaning from that torture was "never again".”
regret · personal · cagey · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fortran and F4, especially in control-flow, is a fairly primitive language. Computed GOTOs and other constructs that cannot be directly transformed”
regret · production · fargle · 2022-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fortran II was my first programming language... I visited with my professor... he pulled out the code that I had written that was still in production”
mixed · production · wglb · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've worked writing signal processing code in Fortran, and it's really quite nice to have that when doing dev”
endorse · production · grahameb · 2017-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our physics group has a core library, first written in 1987, that is in Fortran... It works, it is time-tested”
endorse · production · ISL · 2017-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“happy that I learnt how to get my Fortran code to run fast on an multi-core system”
neutral · personal · Loic · 2025-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Or Fortran-77, for a (math-heavy) subset. ... we decided to port everything to MIPS-C, actually ANSI C”
neutral · production · Tor3 · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have not worked in that language in years but it was adopting c-like features decades ago.”
neutral · production · jleyank · 2023-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The simulation code we use is a 88kLOC Fortran77 file which is in continuous development since the eighties.”
neutral · production · maxnoe · 2022-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote that code in Fortran, on a PC/AT system (1986, so ...).”
neutral · personal · hpcjoe · 2022-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have written C, Fortran, JavaScript, Python, and Scala for money.”
neutral · production · philipkglass · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A macro to define friendly looking bindings to Fortran functions”
neutral · production · reikonomusha · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“people (including me) have been using the same fortran code for many decades across many architectures.”
neutral · personal · tagrun · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a friend and I took a Fortran course at the University of Rochester. They had us do our first two assignments on punched cards”
neutral · personal · intrasight · 2016-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having learned BASIC, FORTRAN 77, Pascal, PDP-11 ASM, Lisp at school, and some dBASE at work”
neutral · personal · Roboprog · 2016-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on VAX/VMS mostly with FORTRAN and loved the hardware and the DCL”
neutral · production · epalmer · 2016-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've dabbled in Fortran/PHP/Ruby/Haskell/Scala/Clojure but they become hazy after a while.”
neutral · personal · ww520 · 2012-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What do we run on these machines? MATLAB, Mathematica, heavy Fortran compilers, expensive microscopes”
neutral · production · pjin · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there's even a few thousand lines of Fortran in there (accessed through a C interface).”
neutral · production · plinkplonk · 2010-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?