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Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 by DrNuke on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:20AM (#22138966)
> There's nothing wrong with old tech in computer science. You can containerize Fortran batch programs with ease. All old things come back once in a while. Functional programming is now the rave and Common LiSP actually sees use.

You got it. May I second that as a nuclear eng for nuclear? Small & Modular is your container... and the novel, distributed grid at transnational level is your framework!?

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Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 by Beltiras on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:53AM (#22139272)
I don't think that translates well here. There aren't very many new projects being started up using Fortran. There are some. But the vast majority of Fortran is shrinking legacy because we have better solutions to those problems today (R/Python for Fortran).
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