[TUHS] Commercial UNIX was other stuff before

Marcus MERIGHI mcmer-tuhs at tor.at
Mon Feb 4 19:33:50 AEST 2019


Hello, 

clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole), 2019.02.03 (Sun) 23:20 (CET):
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 4:10 PM Cág <ca6c at bitmessage.ch> wrote:
> 
> > I wish I could say that.  I feel like nobody needs Fortran anymore, and
> > my skills are being wasted.
> >
> FYI - the last time I saw the numbers, about 75-85% of the production at
> CERN was Fortran.  This is very similar to the USA's high energy labs.  I
> have not seen the numbers of the Darmstadt European space folks, but I
> would not be surprised if they are much different than NASA's.   That was a

Sven Pruefer (Prüfer) mentions that Fortran is in heavy use at German
Space Operations Center:

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9923-space_ops_101#t=735

Marcus


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