Cast not your Perl before swine?

[Mister E]

Levi Pearson wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 1:49 PM, Mister E <Mister.Ed at agoracart.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well needless to say, your Perl will not be wasted in a lot of cases,
>> more than you had thought previously.  Fortran77 might be a different
>> story.  I still have not recouped the college course fees, in wages,
>> directly relating to that material I learned a billion computer
>> light-years ago.
>>
> 
> Look around in the HPC community and you'll find people doing physics
> simulations and such in Fortran.  I imagine they get pretty decent
> pay, too.  Just because you didn't use the Fortran skills doesn't mean
> you couldn't have.
> 
probably newer Fortran as well.

I went into other career at the time, totally unrelated to this field. 
By the time I returned, it was like thawing from a cryo induced sleep.