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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by ryl00 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:28PM (#15478067)
Sounds like your IT department botched the wrapper. Wouldn't a more successful candidate likely just have used an abstraction layer between the .net conventions you were expecting and whatever the native code was doing?
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by cm2187 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:34PM (#15478091)
Nope, the library itself is sold that way. See the documentation:

https://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/DT/nagdotnet_dtw02/html/conten...

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by ryl00 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:47PM (#15478160)
Ah I see, makes more sense. It would be a massive undertaking to abstract that API into something else.
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