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Re:Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of nume... by atrettel on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:29PM (#45355158)
I second this. When I worked on some older Fortran codes, I had to keep a cheat sheet for the variable names and what they meant or controlled. It definitely made the code hard to read.
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Re:Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of nume... by noobermin on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @05:13AM (#45357959)
Yeah, this isn't the case for any codes written since may be the 00s or even the late 90s, although I admit I haven't worked on a code that old recently.
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