Sick and tired of IGNORANCE (Score 1)

FORTRAN was part of the engineering curriculum at Virginia Tech in '96. Unfortunately that was the last year it was taught, and everyone who actually learned FORTRAN before the class was taken off thought it was a huge mistake.

Of course, don't tell that to the latest bunch of basement denizens who, just because they don't UNDERSTAND FORTRAN, they think it's automatically obsolete. In '97, Tech started teaching C++ instead of FORTRAN, and guess what, the class of 2001 engineering student all sneer at FORTRAN, but lo and behold, when they get out into the real world, they can't get jobs as easily as the class of 2000. Why, you ask? Because FORTRAN is still used for a sh!tload of applications!

I now work for the school, and i'll give you a perfect example why FORTRAN is still used. At my job, we have to sort every students' name and ID in this huge file. We use FORTRAN to do it, but we thought it would be interesting to see what other languages could do in terms of efficiency. We wrote a C++ shell sort (reasonably efficient) routine to sort the 30k names. It took several seconds...not bad. Our old FORTRAN code is a bubble sort routine (least efficient) and it does the same job in less than ONE SECOND. That is why FORTRAN is still used and screw all you idiots who think FORTRAN is dead!

Forgive me, I'm just sick and tired of other people's stupidity.