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10y ago
Really well. Dev work is way more fun than science! If you want some advice then: - Take some time to learn some CS fundamentals. - Make sure you know a language that someone that might employ you knows (just so they have a point of referen
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10y ago
Fortran has not been capitalized since the F90 standard came out...
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10y ago
Fortran arrays can be indexed however you like. Code that is designed to be called from C can be written with 0 indexed arrays.
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10y ago
Fortran hasn't been all caps for nearly 30 years now... It is very easy for a physical scientist to write Fortran that performs well - the syntax looks very similar to the maths that is being modeled. It is a lot harder for a scientist
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10y ago
1. A program from 30 years ago will compile and run. 2. As a research student your first program is likely to be a F77 program written by your professor or an older colleague. 3. A library from 30 years ago can be easily wrapped into a mode
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10y ago
The one week experiment ended early. Politics has been allowed again for longer than the experiment ended - I think we are supposed to remain civil though.