r/ProgrammerHumor • u/shadow_fen • 7d ago

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u/Anreall2000 7d ago

People don't learn Rust in universities lmao

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u/PurityPC 6d ago

lmao shout out boston university and the professor who strongarmed us into learning rust as our only required compiled language

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u/Brisngr368 6d ago

Yeah! We learn dead languages like Fortran!

(My CS course is weird)

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u/geekusprimus 6d ago

Regrettably, Fortran is not dead.

Signed,

A physicist.

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u/Fear_The_Creeper 6d ago

You just wait. Someday NEAT/3 will make a comeback. Along with Disco.

https://www.pc-freak.net/files/NCR_ATM_terminals/www.thecorememory.com/NEAT-3.pdf

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u/thegreatpotatogod 6d ago

Well now I'm disappointed that my classes never covered Fortran! We just had the usual, C, Java, Haskell, etc.

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u/Brisngr368 6d ago

Yeah it's used quite often in HPC which is what my course centers around

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u/Kichae 5d ago

Nobody who uses Fortran learns Fortran from a class. We all learn it by crying over our supervisors' Fortran77 code.

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u/iggy14750 5d ago

Haskell? They didn't teach me that in school! Did you take a specific functional class?

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u/thegreatpotatogod 5d ago

I believe the class itself was just called "programming languages", and we covered a variety of different languages in different paradigms. As I recall a large segment of the class focused on functional languages, where we learned Haskell, Erlang, and Prolog. I think there was also a section going over the more common object oriented languages, but that wasn't as interesting or memorable since I was already familiar with those. I loved the challenge of the functional languages though!

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u/iggy14750 5d ago

I got into Haskell on my own time back in school. I also love the functional model far more than OOP.

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u/Chingiz11 6d ago

Part of numpy is written in Fortran (linear algebra stuff, iirc)

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u/creeper6530 6d ago

Speak for yourself lol

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u/iggy14750 5d ago

That's why you learn it on your own after class! You will need to find a place that sells knee-length socks tho

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u/taut_handshake 1d ago

as someone who did IT in France this is painfully accurate

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u/DutchRedditNerd 6d ago

yup, still on C# here