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Re:50 years of Fortran at CERN (2007) by dekhn on Saturday July 18, 2015 @12:55PM (#9908047)
Right, but if you say people "use" something, it's disingenous (for a scientific paper) to imply that implementation details don't matter.

Had I written the paper (I'm a scientist, I work with astro data sets at times, and manage Python wrappers for Fortran and C++ libraries) I would have calculated this based on instructions executed, not lines of user-facing code.

After all, if the code the astro people called was Pure Python, they wouldn't use python, as it would be too slow.

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Re:50 years of Fortran at CERN (2007) by agumonkey on Saturday July 18, 2015 @04:54PM (#9908882)
Reminds me of the 'made in X' fallacy.

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  from subprocess import Popen
  Popen("/usr/bin/some-fortran-binary")
  print("Once again python saves the day.")
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