Re: Programming skills .NE. programming languages
True. Any competent programmer could learn Fortran in a day or two. They might not like it but they could very quickly become proficient in Fortran syntax. The hard bit comes when they are asked to fit a line to some data and refer to "NAG Fortran Library. E02 - Curve and Surface Fitting" and have to select which of the 26 methods is most appropriate.
Like most programming, understanding the problem is harder than understanding the language.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
