That was funny, but TBH, I couldn't watch the whole thing. Not being in the IT industry, I certainly wasn't familiar with all of those languages, but it made me realize that I have learned at least a dozen, more if you count various scripting languages and proprietary languages like MatLab. Of all the languages I have used, I regret taking the time to learn Perl, LISP, and R the most. Not that there was anything terrible about them, just that I got so little productive use from them before they were superseded or obsolete. In contrast, I used C productively for more than 30 years. These days, I am hoping that Python is the last language I will ever feel the need to learn.
As a physical scientist, I still use Fortran almost daily for a lot of my calculations - it’s still the best language for running ocean physical and climate models. I have learned enough Matlab and python to be able to do some quick statistical analyses, but for large problems Fortran code is faster and more efficient, and I have decades worth of code and libraries I can draw from and am familiar with.
My students have primarily migrated to Matlab and Python by now, but some have actually moved to Fortran when they have to deal with really large data arrays - Matlab just bogs down in this case.
Indeed, physicists continue to love Fortran. I'll bet you swear by LaTex too. 😉
As a physical scientist, I still use Fortran almost daily for a lot of my calculations - it’s still the best language for running ocean physical and climate models. I have learned enough Matlab and python to be able to do some quick statistical analyses, but for large problems Fortran code is faster and more efficient, and I have decades worth of code and libraries I can draw from and am familiar with.
My students have primarily migrated to Matlab and Python by now, but some have actually moved to Fortran when they have to deal with really large data arrays - Matlab just bogs down in this case.
Indeed, physicists continue to love Fortran. I'll bet you swear by LaTex too. 😉
i do use LaTex to create equations which I then paste into Word documents - but only because the equation editor feature of Word sucks!
Amen. I was a LaTeX guy until RMarkdown came along - changed my life.
You know that Markdown (heh) was based on how we used to talk on USENET and signify importance?
Kids these days. 😁
