> In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs,

> In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. This is pretty wild when you think about it. I wouldn't expect a lab to check another lab's work by re-writing their code (although, I'd love to hear some examples!), but if you don't, you're really powerless against whatever bugs they wrote into their scientific code.