Originally Posted by
Ttoc6
You'd be surprised how many industries are like this. Defense is terrible for it. Medical is worse (but getting better). And i hear fortran programmers are highly desired in the finance sector.
Power delivery and utility too. Many places still using electromechanical relays from 80 years ago. Even some of the "modern" stuff is ancient. I still do a lot with serial communications, for example, even on brand new installations (often at only 9600 baud). Sometimes ethernet just isn't necessary.
And yeah, Fortran underpins a ton of the very important stuff, including much of the calculations that keep the electrical grid from collapsing.