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A large share of the illegibility of Fortran code is actually just the aversion of numerics code to having meaningful variable names.
by jcranmer 1y ago
A large share of the illegibility of Fortran code is actually just the aversion of numerics code to having meaningful variable names.
- atrettel 1y agoI second this. When I worked on some older Fortran codes, I had to keep a cheat sheet for the variable names and what they meant or controlled. It definitely made the code hard to read.
- noobermin 1y agoYeah, this isn't the case for any codes written since may be the 00s or even the late 90s, although I admit I haven't worked on a code that old recently.
- pjmlp 1y agoSomething that also happens in languages like C and Go, while C has the same reason as Fortran, given the limitations of their early compilers, Go has no reason for single letter receivers.