Anyone Old Enough to Remember Fortran?

Question

What Web Design langauge is most similar to it now??

Answer 1

Wait plz... I will connect you with my grandfather.

Answer 2

I sure can remember it, though I didn't use it. I was using Cobol.
Before Fortran, I was using Plan, the ICL assembler language on a 1903 running under George 2 - about
1967 I reckon.
The only languages I know now are Basic and HTML.
Retired from professional computing years ago

Answer 3

I not only remember Fortran, i remember punchcards!

Fortran was very good at processing and organizing large amounts of numerical data, but its user interface and string processing capabilities were pretty crude. Modern languages seem to be descended more from C; I'm not sure if any Fortran genes got passed on.

Answer 4

Fortran although was used long ago is still being used today in simulation software. computational fluid Dynamics CFX-5 a leading software in engineering design. (Compaq Visual Fortran). Fortran compilers are also produced by Intel. These are tow leading manufacturers in the field.

Answer 5

I would say no web design language would be most similar. I do offer a solution though, scripting languages today are used on the server side. This could possibly help you to learn a language with the skills you have, plus an enviroment where you can use those skills.

There would actually be nothing classed as web design languages, but I could be wrong. The technoloy today is server side (back end) and client side (front end).

HTML (Hyper Text Mark up Language) is basically a language used to tell the program how to display the text. There are variations on HTML like XHTML (eXtensible HTML), XML (eXtensible Mark up Language), etc. These are good to learn as well. Languages supporting HTML, etc. are CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). These allow you to style the sheet as you want.
HTML Info page
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
HTML 4.01
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
XHTML 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
XML 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
CSS 2
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
CSS 2 Revision 1
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

Be aware, some browsers do not fully support all these standards, and your site will probably be displayed differently in these browsers.

A client side scripting / programming language would be javascript, not to be confused with java. They are NOT the same thing. You can get some tutorials on javascript here
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
http://www.javascript.com/
http://javascript.internet.com/

Server side scripting / programming langugages are
PHP
http://www.php.net/
A PHP manual
http://www.php.net/manual/en/

Tutorials and other things for most web technology, if not all, is available here. I do not use this site, as it contains the same information you can get from the specifications from the W3C (World World Web Consortium).
http://www.w3schools.com/
W3C
http://www.w3.org/

You could also display something in a Java Applet.
Java - Official Developers Site
http://java.sun.com/
Java - Official Users Site
http://www.java.com/en/
Java Download
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
select JDK 5.0 Update 9
Only take NetBeans if you want an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), not necessary.

Java API Documentation
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/index.html#api
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html
Java Applet API
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/applet/Applet.html
Java Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/index.html#demos
Java Applet Demo
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/demos.html

Have fun learning.

[Edit]
p.s, You may also need to know how the DOM (Document Object Model) works as well.
DOM level 2 core
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/
DOM level 1
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/
Some info from a university about the levels of DOM
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/XMLJ/classes/class6/slide5-1.html

Answer 6

Matlab

Answer 7

Java, .net

Answer 8

Nope, sorry.