# Anecdotal Fortran... :-) **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704 "2021-02-11T17:58:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 12:26am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/497 "2026-05-02T00:26:17Z")
If it is this: [Fortran Coloring Book: Kaufman, Roger Emanuel: 9780262610261: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/FORTRAN-Coloring-Book-Roger-Kaufman/dp/0262610264), then I think you need to ask the author for permission. ---
**Author:** ![jorgeg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/jorgeg/32/6835_2.png) [@jorgeg](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jorgeg)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/498 "2026-05-02T00:27:25Z")
oh wow! you can still buy it!! it’s 100 bucks lol thanks, I will ask ---
**Author:** ![aledinola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@aledinola](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/aledinola)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/499 "2026-05-06T09:50:45Z")
Bob Lucas, Nobel laureate in Economics: “Our task as I see it […] is to write a FORTRAN program that will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’ and will generate as ‘output’ statistics describing the operating characteristics of time series we care about, which are predicted to result from these policies.”— Robert Lucas, Studies in Business-Cycle Theory (1981) ---
**Author:** ![milancurcic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/milancurcic/32/2_2.png) [@milancurcic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/milancurcic)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/500 "2026-09-16T02:29:38Z")
TypeSafe AI, an AI company that today announced their new fast frontier model for structured outputs, uses images of FORTRAN punch cards in their webpage art. It both looks cool, and I think is in the spirit of their mission which to me reads like “back to basics”. Today’s announcement: > **[Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog](https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev)** > > TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access. Company’s manifesto: > **[Manifesto - TypeSafe AI](https://typesafe.ai/manifesto)** > > TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access. Both pages feature FORTRAN punch card art. ---
**Author:** ![DavidB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@DavidB](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/DavidB)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/501 "2026-09-16T04:51:26Z")
You can borrow a pdf of the Fortran Coloring Book from [archive.org](https://archive.org/search?query=fortran+coloring+book+kaufman&tab=all) ---
**Author:** ![compuJarHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@compuJarHead](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/compuJarHead)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/502 "2026-10-15T04:17:05Z")
R.I.P., and thank you to Fran for her contributions to compilers and thank you for sharing this obituary. It is surprising to see how the burden of student loan debt reaches back so many decades. Perhaps in Fran’s case there was a positive in that the debt led to a rewarding career at IBM? [Previous page](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704.md?page=24)