> On Jun 1, 10:34 am, user1 example.net> wrote:

>> Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
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>>> The size of the usergroup is far under estimated, in engineering and
>>> science it is one of the major programming languages.

>> Are there solid statistics somewhere that indicate the use of Fortran in
>> science and engineering applications exceeds the use of C, C++, Java ?

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> A 2006 survey of United States Department of Defense High Performance
> Computing users showed a bit less than 60%% of users write "prototyping
> software" (not sure why that was the focus) in Fortran and roughly 85%%
> write in C/C+/C#. Obviously, many are engaged in multi-language
> development, which I think will become even more common with the new C
> interoperability features of Fortran 2003. I can't find the survey
> results online anywhere, but I can send a PDF to anyone who wants a ...