<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Interesting things coded in Fortran? How about one of the first medical Deep Learning applications.<div>In the 1970s. <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-93308-0_32">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-93308-0_32</a></div><div><br></div><div>My father worked in the Diagnostic Methodology Research Unit in Glasgow.</div><div>I learned to code as a 12 year old by sneaking in and using their PDP 11-45 running RSX 11M.</div><div>I learned Fortran coding using the PDP.</div><div>The researchers there wrote an entire medical diagnostics program called GLADYS in Fortran.</div><div>These days we would call it an expert system, it used Bayseian statistics.</div><div><br></div><div>They had a room outfitted with a terminal with simple buttons, and a one way mirror.</div><div>They were investigating if patients would be more inclined to discuss embarrasing conditions, and be more truthful, with a computer rather than a human doctor.</div><div><br></div><div>My father also told me that clinicians from out of Scotland had to be given Glaswegian vocabulary coaching.</div><div>"I've got the dry boak" = dry retching etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 09:28, Mikhail Kuzminsky <<a href="mailto:kus@free.net">kus@free.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe that the rationality of FORTRAN using is and now very much<br>
dependent on the application. In quantum chemistry, where I previously<br>
programmed, as also in computational chemistry in general, Fortran<br>
remains the main language.<br>
<br>
>Yes, C is dangerous. You can break your code in ever so many ways if <br>
>you code with less than discipline and knowledge and great care. <br>
This may mean that in some cases write Fortran program can be easier<br>
and therefore faster than in C.<br>
<br>
> Hell, at my age I may never write serious C applications ever again, <br>
>but if I write ANYTHING<br>
> that requires a compiler, its going to be in C. <br>
<br>
I haven't been programming in quantum chemistry for a very long time.<br>
But recently I wrote a tiny program for the task of computational<br>
chemistry - and I did it in Fortran :-)<br>
<br>
Mikhail<br>
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