17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
noon
On Wed, 2026-06-17 at 10:59 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
While not directly affiliated with UC Berkeley, Damian Rouson, who
works at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, which is operated by UC Berkeley,
is one of the lead developers of the Coarray system of SPMD parallel
programming in Fortran (this was originally started by Bob Numrich at
Cray, proposed for the Fortran standard in 1998 by John Reid, added as
a project in 2008, and is now part of the standard). He is head of the
Computer Languages and Systems Software Group at LBL, teaches classes
on campus and UC Berkeley, adjunct faculty at UC San Diego, with former
positions at Stanford, CUNY, and the University of Maryland.
COBOL is "dead" because academia said
it was. The price you pay for
not letting the ivory tower masters drive the bus.
UC Berkeley's CS department stopped teaching COBOL and Fortran, while each
of those was still a degree requirement in some UC Berkeley degrees!