I got the urge yesterday to familiarize myself with #Fortran 2018 and bought a book on it. I installed gfortran in WSL and started editing in VS Code. The experience was delightful. I learned Fortran IV in 1970 and became expert at optimizing and debugging code on various architectures. I really appreciate the features in modern Fortran and look forward to experiment wiht co-arrays and teams.
#progamming
@sfleetucker I watched a Dave's Garage video on benchmarking 90+ languages. He devoted one session to Fortran and COBOL, neither of which he had actually used. I learned them both in 1970 and have a fondness for both. I've learned 60+ languages and dialects over my career. My favorites these days are #Python, #Julia and #APL, all of which have JupyterLab kernels. LFortran is still in alpha test, but I'll add that to JupyterLab when it's beta quality.
@peterquirk That takes me back, my first ever college course in programming was WATFOR Fortran on a 360.