The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC

Photo credit: marekuliasz / Shutterstock. Article by Timothy Prickett Morgan. The Next Platform – May 2, 2023.

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. And more times than not, they learned these “real” programming languages on an IBM mainframe or minicomputer and sometimes on a DEC VAX. […]

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