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Re:Fortran Standard Library by walshemj on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:04PM (#23173419)
Not Shure that using c++ is going to help with "readable, maintainable code" any more than modern Fortran is.

and I suspect they will be writing Fortran in C++

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Re:Fortran Standard Library by jjdredd on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:25PM (#23174544)
Could be, at least C++ has tools to implement better design. I've seen one guy's python code that looks worse than his FORTRAN code. There's a russian saying: "A true FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language".
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Re:Fortran Standard Library by greglindahl on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:04AM (#23175147)
Are you sure you aren't being polluted by this article? https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

> Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.

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Re:Fortran Standard Library by walshemj on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:04PM (#23186140)
Heh I have worked on Nuke simulations for a breeder reactor so a mommy bomb and I have written Billing systems in Fortran.

And that billing system was very well designed using map reduce back in the early 80's, we did have an actual genius as a team leader though.

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Re:Fortran Standard Library by jjdredd on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:35AM (#23175726)
Heh, I could have made a mistake about the origin of the saying. I haven't read that article.
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