Originally Posted by
Paint Horse
FORTRAN? TeX?
Ah, the old days.
I just now turned around and looked at the stack of punch cards and the IBM tape on the shelf behind me. They are just below the shelf with the 8" floppy disks and the 5.25" 160k floppy drive. The tape sits on a stand for an iPad.
FORTRAN is old, but not obsolete. Some legacy programmes and routines are still used in conjunction with modules and GUIs developped in C, C++, visual C, Visual Pascal etc.
TeX is is the standard used by scholarly journals published by scientific societies such as AMS, APS (American Mathematical Society. American Physical Society). IN Comparison with TeX Microsoft Word looks pathetically amateur.