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All the more reason to rewrite it... You don't want some mistake in 30 year old COBOL code to be making your 2023 experiment to have wrong results.
by londons_explore 3y ago
All the more reason to rewrite it... You don't want some mistake in 30 year old COBOL code to be making your 2023 experiment to have wrong results.
- gmueckl 3y agoThat's the complete opposite of what is actually the case: some of that really old code in these programs is battle-tested and verified. Any rewrite of such parts would just destroy that work for no good reason.
- mlyle 3y agoThe whole point is in these older numerical codes is that they're proven and there's a long history of results to compare against.
- dpe82 3y ago*FORTRAN.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoWhy don't YOU take some old code and rewrite it. I tried it for some 30+ year old HPC code and it was a grim experience and I failed hard. So why not keep your lazy, fatuous suggestions to yourself.