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On Apr 23, 1:52=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:28:24 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> > Also, Fortran does not have plotting ability build-in, so if a
> > student solves a differential equation using Fortran and wants to
> > plot the solution, then how to do it?
>
> If I correctly remember grafor (Graphical FORTRAN?) was the first ever
> plotting library.
>
> Not that I am advocating FORTRAN, of course... (:-))
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

There were few, and there was always Open-GL.

Last time I checked on FORTRAN in 2002-3, it was pretty decent
language for the purpose.  Nothing like FORTRAN IV I started on. And
it also was fast (Compaq/DEC).
Surprisingly, while it went through series of dramatic transitions
(f90 to f08),  it seems that F community is not obsessed with backward
compatibility as much as C community.  Compilers are able compile and
link to old legacy code but for those who writes software there is a
new format.

Anyone knows how widely it is still being used and what is
demographics of it?

G.