[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-31 19:34:53 +0000, seasoned_geek said:

> On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 6:10:24 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> But if you look at 1000 new applications how many of them will actually 
>> be in Fortran?
>> 
>> My guess: most likely none, maybe one or two.
> 
> That would be a bad guess unless one is scoping the universe of "new 
> applications" to be only things running on a PC.

Out of a thousand?  Around 0.431%, according to TIOBE. Which is also 
well above Rust and bash, so there's that.

If you skew the sample to select sites that are already using Fortran — 
some of which are undoubtedly still firmly stuck on FORTRAN 77, too — 
then Fortran usage will be accordingly somewhat higher.





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