Reply to post: Re: Some Department of Commerce weather alert systems use Fortran

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Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

Re: Some Department of Commerce weather alert systems use Fortran

I got stuck with it because I was the only guy left who remembered how to administer VMS

Fortran is a wonderfully portable language, running it on a newer system should have been pretty tribial, and faster (although a lot less fun).

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