Interesting report: "An evaluation of risks associated with relying on Fortran for mission critical codes for the next 15 years," Los Alamos National Lab. Finds that it's very likely they will be unable to staff #Fortran projects with top computer scientists/engineers, and even chance they can get computational scientists…

Link to PDF: permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?w

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@labarba Odd, though, that they didn't weigh these risks against the cost and risks of porting the code. And pretty sure that they could find people willing to learn if they pay enough.

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