Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)

Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by bluedino on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:15PM (#15478723)

>> Professors usually have this legacy code on hand (often code they wrote themselves decades ago) and pass this code on to their students

So cut-n-paste code. The students are running code that they don't really know what it does, it might not even be correct...it's like StackOverflow in academia.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by robotresearcher on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:05PM (#15479596)

Did you write your own libc and libm? Compiler? We are ALL using code we didn't write.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by spc476 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:46PM (#15480161)

Daniel J. Bernstein did that for all of his projects (qmail, daemontools, etc) and I don't see him getting a ton of flack over doing that.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by dagw on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:03AM (#15481802)

He certainly used to back when qmail vs postfix as the better sendmail replacement was a real debate 'we' where regularly having. If he's not getting any flack today it's most likely because he's fallen more or less into irrelevance when it comes to practical day to day operations.

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