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		Koshkin on April 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM will offer free COBOL training Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.

WorldMaker on April 13, 2020 [–]

Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.

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