pklausler

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1. 31.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   fortran .GT. cobol
2. 32.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   Your code will work unchanged until you try to change compilers or your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language.
3. 33.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   maybe they weren't really concerned about portability or a decent standard?
4. 34.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   I wish that (still) worked reliably, but it can unfortunately get one into trouble with some compilers and some optimization modes that assume that NaNs are undefined behavior.
5. 35.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   I'm curious, how old do you think I am?
6. 36.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   I'm 19 years into using my own ("aoeui"), and it's one of the best things I ever did for my own productivity.
7. 37.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   Conveniently ignoring the likelihood that Claude had been trained on the freely accessible source code.
8. 38.▲
   by pklausler 7mo ago

   https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... is a good explanation. The diagram of the "MacLeod Cycle" utterly convinced me, having been around that loop a few times.
9. 39.▲
   by pklausler 8mo ago

   Is AWS an environment where attempts to discover improvements are commonly mocked?
10. 40.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Sounds reminiscent of the CDC 6600, a big fast compute processor with a simple peripheral processor whose barreled threads ran lots of the O/S and took care of I/O and other necessary support functions.
11. 41.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Today, there are at least 9 production-level surviving Fortran compilers (GNU Fortran, IFX, nagfor, nvfortran, XLF, Cray/HPE's ftn, Fujitsu's frt, old Flang-based Arm/AMD, and flang-new). This situation has advantages a
12. 42.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    I started writing the new "f18" Fortran front-end at NVIDIA in the summer of '17, and it was added to LLVM as "flang" in June 2020. There were already at least three other "flang"s at the time, one of whi
13. 43.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    If "AI" were doing anything more than repeating content from the web without attribution, I might agree with you.
14. 44.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    What's FORTRAN 83?
15. 45.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    If one really wants to take a stand against this crazy administration, they shouldn’t start it by referring to Hegseth with his assumed title.
16. 46.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Democracy rewards mass appeal, and that in turn encourages demagoguery and gives a platform for stupidity. It's been an unavoidable problem with the system since Athens.
17. 47.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Having lived (or maybe more accurately "resided") in the Springs for a few years, this story didn't surprise me at all.
18. 48.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    GH also needs to find a way to stop AI scraping of IP. (Or not. It might be lucrative to host some novel algorithm on GH under a license permitting its use in generative LLM results, at a reasonable per-impression fee.)
19. 49.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    When I want to autocomplete my code with IP scraped from github with all licensing removed, nothing beats an LLM.
20. 50.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Fortran has had dummy procedures (subprogram arguments that can be associated with subroutines or functions) since Fortran II.
21. 51.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Parentheses in Fortran have semantic meaning beyond precedence, so you would want to distinguish original parentheses from the inserted ones.
22. 52.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    This might work if Fortran were portable, or if only one compiler were targeted.
23. 53.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    The transition from assembly to C, as I remember it, didn't involve using automated IP theft of scraped licensed source code to generate slop that no human has understood up until it's thrown at a code reviewer, though.
24. 54.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    Fortran has its problems with its standard and portability, but it is hardly a dead language yet.
25. 55.▲
    by pklausler 8mo ago

    (Raises aged hand sheepishly) I have one on my desk that I often use for quick estimations. It boots up in zero seconds.
26. 56.▲
    by pklausler 9mo ago

    Github suggests reviewers to PR authors based on who's been modifying nearby code recently (ok, I don't know whether that's a general policy, but it happens to me all of the time). And for the past year or so I have been g
27. 57.▲
    by pklausler 9mo ago

    I'm so old, those jokes were about me .
28. 58.▲
    by pklausler 9mo ago

    FWIW, Fortran does have submodules.
29. 59.▲
    by pklausler 9mo ago

    I think of the 6809 as a 16-bit microprocessor, myself (pace Wikipedia). It has 16-bit registers, load/stores, and add/subtracts. A nice clean architecture for its day.
30. 60.▲
    by pklausler 9mo ago

    https://fpm.fortran-lang.org