&gt; Technical debt.<p>Fortran code isn&#x27;t inherently technical debt, any more than code in any other language is.<p>&gt; Do you still have a VCR? Isn&#x27;t it a bad idea to assume VHS is a good medium to archive?<p>I fail to see the relevance of the analogy; its not exactly as if there is a shortage of -- F&#x2F;OSS and commercial -- Fortran toolchains maintained and available.