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That sounds like a strawman. You're ignoring maintenance and adding features to old codebases. It's usually the majority of the work done. Sure, you don't need
by Zababa 5y ago
That sounds like a strawman. You're ignoring maintenance and adding features to old codebases. It's usually the majority of the work done. Sure, you don't need to recode BLAS as it's doing its job. But not everything is BLAS.
- theodorethomas 5y agoI am sitting here looking at a 50-line Fortran routine in our codebase that says ! MARK 1 RELEASE. NAG COPYRIGHT 1971. It has been revised since then to use free form, structured programming, MODULEs, KINDs, INTENTs and IMPLICIT NONE. If we can do it, everybody can. I have already mentioned some reasons that people don't do it. None of the reasons I have heard are "Fortran is too old and clunky".
- Zababa 5y agoConsidering that most Java codebases are still on Java 8, I'm not sure I agree with your point that "If we can do it, everybody can". Let's agree to disagree on that.