I’ve shared some thoughts on Fortran in the German podcast “Engineering Kiosk”: #259 Modern Fortran: Nach 70 Jahren immer noch ein HPC-Arbeitstier mit Prof. Martin Diehl - Engineering Kiosk
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I always love how in German some words you guys just refuse to translate like ‘High Performance Computing’ just randomly inserted 
Thanks for this! great to learn and practice my German. This will be in the newsletter!
thanks!
I could have used “Hochleistungsrechnen”
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When I speak Spanish I never like to translate it to “Computo de Alto Rendimiento” it sounds weird, I like to keep it as HPC and did what you did in the podcast of saying the letters in German.
How did you get contacted to do this? It’s very nice that people are getting contacted for this!
In this case, it was shameless self-invitation. But I listen to this podcast for a long time and had the feeling that the topic would fit.
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I am listening to it as we go - the discourse got a call out, that’s great! hopefully people listen to it and maybe try to learn more about Fortran.
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That’s very nice. Thank you for sharing and for speaking publicly about these topics, @MarDie.
I think the only time I used “Hochleistungsrechner” (or rather “Hochleistungs-Rechenkapazitäten”) in the past 10 years was when writing a BMBF proposal in German.
@jorgeg, yes. Since most research environments/groups are international anyway and the language of science is (currently) English, we tend to use those instead of the German words. I’ll try to remember “Computación de alto rendimiento” as a new word to add to my still limited Spanish vocabulary.
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Nice interview. The reactions of the hosts upon hearing about the efforts to modernize the language reflect my own experience. People outside the Fortran world typically react to this endeavor far more positively than some people within. Which is a real shame.
It is utmost unfortunate that your institution decided to stop teaching the language, especially now that Fortran is starting to turn the tide.
With two fresh open-source LLVM based compilers, with LLVM’s enormous technical success and especially its democratization of the compiler development process, and last but not least with an innovative community, Fortran has a bright future ahead of it.
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