I'm taking my first coding class /g/ and apparently I'm

Are you going into accounting?

>>55807448
I don't plan on it but it doesn't seem like a bad option to have

Fortran 77 was my uni language going in. I am now 39. Go to a better school.

You don't need a head start. Do yourself a favor learn another language and act surprised when it seems like a repeat.

It is a solid language, but you can't do much with it, but the syntax is simple and it is super easy to pump out a few things should you need to calculate stuff. Most fortran programmers will move their code to C should they need some speed or functionality.

>>55807783
>Go to a better school.
This
They should offer C, C++, Java, and Assembly for lower-level languages. Learning Fortran might get you a very specific job but it'll be deprecated long before your career is over.

>>55807270
I learned fortran in college in 2001. NASA uses it on space probes they told me. memes anon. memes.

Learning a deprecated language to maintain a spaghetti code base. Seems like a go idea

>>55808012
>NASA uses it on space probes
They still use punchcards. The lack of gravity surprisingly has little to no effect on paper.

>>55808055
This is the whole of Finance.
"It still runs, we don't need to buy a new one."