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> .. Fortran 90 ... Peasants. FORTRAN-77 is the real Fortran.

• greglindahl 7y ago
  Fortran 77 has a lot of luxuries compared to FORTRAN IV, I have to say.
  • mring33621 7y ago
    Paradise! We had to wake up a half an hour before we went to bed to use FRTRN 0.1, with punch cards made from rolled-up, discarded newspapers!
    • jedimastert 7y ago
      > We had to wake up a half an hour before we went to bed I love it
      • lmkg 7y ago
        In case you're not aware, it's a riff on an old Monty Python skit (RIP Terry Jones). An absolute classic, that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
        • dang 7y ago
          I was surprised to learn that it predates Monty Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nL6isGPhzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nL6isGPhzk
  • UncleSlacky 7y ago
    I can write Fortran in any language!
    • tempodox 7y ago
      ... which instantly qualifies you as a Real Programmer :)
      • deleted 7y ago
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    • TheRealKing 7y ago
      I have a Fortran codebase which takes about a week to finish a simulation on 10 cores. Rewriting this code in Python and running would take about 50 years to finish the same simulation in serial mode, and at best 5 years if run in parallel on 10 cores.