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Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co... by ogogmad on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:40PM (#28558712)
"Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language that remains in use today"

This is like the ship of Theseus, except where the ship has changed from a fishing vessel to a dreadnought.

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Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co... by leephillips on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:02PM (#28558917)
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”

-- Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982

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Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co... by jhgb on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:59PM (#28558894)
Battleship of Theseus it is, then.
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Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co... by actinium226 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:25PM (#28559106)
Aircraft Carrier of Theseus it is, then.
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Re:Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer Co... by 174SIGSEGV on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:22AM (#28562284)
We joke, but there actually was an aircraft carrier by the name HMS Theseus. It was under construction towards the end of the Second World War, and deployed to Korea in 1950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Theseus_(R64)

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