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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:49:54 JST myrmepropagandist

   I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

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     Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️ (rayhindle@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:49:53 JST Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️

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     @futurebird Since April 2024, Fortran has ranked among the top ten languages in the TIOBE index, a measure of the popularity of programming languages.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:50:00 JST myrmepropagandist

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     The ancients walk among us even now and boy are they cranky.

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     John M. Gamble (jgamble@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:50:06 JST John M. Gamble

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     @futurebird

     I'll toss my hat into that ring.

     Adding to my exasperation, the people who write goto-ridden code to "prove" how bad FORTRAN is. C'mon, people, F77 has been around since 1977, it's in the name.

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     Steve Gisselbrecht (stevegis_ssg@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:50:07 JST Steve Gisselbrecht

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     @futurebird
     I only recently learned that an R function I use all the time is actually written in FORTRAN.

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     Tim Kellogg (kellogh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:50:11 JST Tim Kellogg

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     @futurebird ha, BLAS and LAPACK are written in fortran and almost all linear algebra libraries use them for array operations, e.g. numpy. so there’s a chance several of the programs you use are running fortran, especially anything ML/AI related

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     Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 16:52:32 JST Gnarley Boot

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     Nothing wrong with loving old stuff. There are people that still create software with Pascal and BASIC.
     
     This same argument is thrown at music producers that use old software or retro hardware too. Not everything late and great is better.
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     MikeK (mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 17:32:52 JST MikeK

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     @futurebird

     Just did a quick check.
     I'm older than Fortran by three years

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