programming is a blue collar job, no degree required. Try climbing the ladder in a technical company (not a startup). You won't have the skills and understanding to assume the responsibilities of higher positions.
It's been this way for a long time. Programming can be taught at a vo-tech.
This is the worse advice I have ever seen.
This kind of 'doctoring' ends up with "take this pill, if it doesn't work come back'. (lets change that for loop to start with 1 instead of 0. problem still there ? hmm could be that equation is wrong...)
How about this ?
Take an X-Ray. See what is broken. Cut into the body, see what is broken.
Same with software. The 'symptoms' are very diffuse and do not map 1 to 1 with the 'disease'.
Use the debugger. Capture outputs at intermediate steps and evaluate them. Dig into the system to identify the actual problem, then fix that.
I can run Fortran IV code on a modern compiler without change.
2015-1966=48 years. And counting.
Ada95 was a very easy transition from Ada83.
Pay attention to users ! Backwards compatibility is MANDATORY for a language.
You greatly overvalue the specifics of your CS courses. The concepts, at a high level of abstraction, should be identifiable to you from memory. The details are recovered by using some ancient technology known as a book.
Rubbish. LOC is a measure of size. How well it is put together is entirely something else.
Seeing that it is done in ada, at least it shows the system architects have a clue about large software systems.
No longer supported ? hWhat ?
And don't get me started about COMMON and EQUIVALENCE.
To be blunt, FORTRAN 77 was probably the most practical language ever devised. What is this monster ?
I predict more code written in FORTRAN 77 is being used today that all of the code written in later dialects. And this will be the same for the next 20 years.