Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:48:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

There are huge FORTRAN libraries around that have taken years to write.
COBOL and FORTRAN are not hard languages to learn, especially for non
computer nerds. And they work and are well supported.
Why NOT carry on using them?

The web site has been revamped but I'm not sure the backend has. I grabbed
the FORTRAN code for dealing with State Plane Coordinate System
conversions from the NOAA web site. It still has Vincenty's comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Vincenty

Parameters have changed but the code still works well.