"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
-
Remark: That punchline isn't mine. It's a quote from Ed Posts "Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal" from 1983. I should not assume everyone knows that text
. https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/rpdup.pdf
@masek though it's well known in my field (the link is to colleagues in Munich
) -
@masek though it's well known in my field (the link is to colleagues in Munich
)@vicgrinberg I didn't know if it is well known today. My university time was in the 1980s
and times are a chaning... -
@vicgrinberg A determined physicist can code Fortran in any language...
As a consultant programmer from the '90, all my programs, no matter the language, are Perl programs.
-
"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop
@vicgrinberg Meanwhile me and my tangled web of awk and Iraf scripts:
-
@echopapa @vicgrinberg I think the amount of work put into decently optimising heavy number crunching in Fortran has been very significant. That is second order stuff that doesn't arrive 'out the box'
-
"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop
@vicgrinberg Fortran 90! Using that new fangled stuff. Fortran 77 on punch cards was the peak!
Ok, I only ever did omega on punch cards in college, just because. I may be old, but I’m not that old
-
"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop
With files names like something_inscrutable_$DATE.f, no doubt.
-
@thomastc yeah, we are a big bunch of physicists who are also mostly not native speakers
-
@vicgrinberg Meanwhile me and my tangled web of awk and Iraf scripts:
@astro_jcm feel ya, mine are in a language (s-lang) that pretty much nobody knows and uses
-
@echopapa @vicgrinberg There are quite a few improvements in Fortran 2003 over F90/95, too.
@dmbaturin @echopapa @vicgrinberg
Brings back memories... I wrote a textbook (in Finnish) on Fortran 90 with colleagues, and the fourth edition included Fortran 2003 features. Those were interesting times.
-
"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop
@vicgrinberg
I still recommend Fortran at work for people who want to write numerical code.It's a lousy general purpose language but Fortran 90 and later are really good and really pleasant to use for numerical stuff.
-
"This is a directory where all my codes are and of course they are all Fortran 90 codes."
Things you hear at a hands-on session in an astrophysics workshop
@vicgrinberg or biophysics!
-
I med-mastodon.com shared this topic
