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[–] renormalizer@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Your daily weather forecast likely runs on FORTRAN. It's quite terrible code in many places because the people writing it are not software engineers but meteorologists, mathematicians, or physicists with little to no formal training in software design writing a million-line behemoth.

And FORTRAN adds to the suck because it is superbly verbose, lacks generics, has a few really bad language design decisions carried over from the 60's, and a thoroughly half-assed object model tacked on. As a cherry on top, the compilers are terrible because nobody uses the language anymore -- especially the more recent features (2003 and later).