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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by coldtea on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:43PM (#15478132)
20,000 lines of code casually churned out in 2-3 months will be a nightmare to a) understand, b) maintain, much less to rewrite...
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by cocoablazing on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:26PM (#15478794)
It sounds like he’s talking about scripts generated for research, rather than code for components intended to be persistent.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by rxhernandez on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:33PM (#15479421)
Precisely this.
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