Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
by geezerjay on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:58PM
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> 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much.
Once I spent close to a month hunting down a subtle but nasty bug in a number crunching module which was perhaps around 2k LoC. Writing code is very easy. Verifying and validating number crunching code is very hard and very time consuming.
Once I spent close to a month hunting down a subtle but nasty bug in a number crunching module which was perhaps around 2k LoC. Writing code is very easy. Verifying and validating number crunching code is very hard and very time consuming.