Fortran
product on 12 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 31 times in 18 episodes since 2017
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Judy Faulkner taught herself Fortran in one week at Rochester
“So they give her a book, like a manual on Fortran and Judy teaches herself Fortran in a week and becomes one of the best programmers in the lab.”
Mike Perham: Legacy technologies like Fortran and COBOL still generate unseen profits
“I also look at tech like Fortran or COBOL, right, that have been, like, in existence for going on 6070 years now. And they're still out there. There's still people making money off of it. You just don't hear about it.”
Workers must continuously adapt skills to avoid technological displacement
“Computers are coming in. They're going to replace these human computers who are very much slower. So she says, I think you better learn how to do Fortran so that you can actually run the computer and not be out of a job. And that's something that is happening …”