[1stStrike]

A requirement for my major was to take programming and the only course available to engineers is Fortran and from what CS majors tell me, its useless.

Is there anything useful thing i can do with fortran other than mathematical calculations or is it useless?

Also, any other languages similar to fortran. Id rather use what ive learned so far and apply elsewhere rather than forgetting it all.

[Bomb]

It's obsolete and does nothing

[dogfeet]

I haven't used Fortran, or seen it in use, since high school---almost 30 years ago.

You can pick up some basic programming techniques, but it would be better to use something from this century.

Frankly, you'd do better if you attended HOPE in NYC.

[inixuity]

Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose,[2] procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational physics, and computational chemistry. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.[4]

Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-based programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003).

[Bomb]

Originally Posted by inixuity

Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose,[2] procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational physics, and computational chemistry. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.[4]

Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-based programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003).

Never heard of Fortran 2003, maybe give it a try.

[dogfeet]

Check out machine language while you're at it! lol.

Nothing like bootstraping a system using 0's and 1's

[kj369kj]

Fortran is useless but a lot of my professors say leaning it will help you understand the fundamentals, and general ideas of programming.

[DarkMan]

i have already work with fortran for a job converting fortran code to another language its pretty useless and you can lean the fundamentals from any other programming language seriously