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Working daily with a blind scientist, I am translating the equations from old papers without good OCR in Fortran to discuss them. I haven't found a better way,

by Loic 6y ago

Working daily with a blind scientist, I am translating the equations from old papers without good OCR in Fortran to discuss them. I haven't found a better way, but we would definitely appreciate more accessible content.

neolog 6y ago
You're translating into fortran? Why?
- Loic 6y ago
  Because Fortran is FORmula TRANslator and it is very easy to express complex equations with it. It the lingua franca of scientific computing.
  - neolog 6y ago
    TIL. I'm curious what Fortran buys you over, say, Julia.
    - Loic 6y ago
      We simply master Fortran because of all the number crunching we are doing, nothing more.
- TheRealKing 6y ago
  because it is powerful, fast, simple, object oriented, while being natively parallel, on both shared and distributed architecture.