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ChrisMarshallNY07/31/20251 replyview on HN

> I suspect many key open source systems (Linux, Wikipedia) will still be around in 100 years.

Bet FORTRAN will still be around. Maybe PHP, as well. Def C.


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pklausler08/01/2025

Fortran has multiple incompatible implementations and a standard that's supported completely by none of them, and that hasn't maintained 100% forward compatibility across revisions. It'll still be around in the sense that English will be -- there will be a thing by that name -- but it's impossible to say now exactly what it will be, or to write Fortran now that will still work identically without change for the next century. I think C'89 uniprocessor code would stand a better chance.