[Beowulf] Linux quality vs. defects

[Peter St. John]

Joe,
Well that was facile of me. I was thinking universities didn't teach
fortran anymore, but I see that the UNC research computing support group
currently supports three brands (gnu, intel, and portland) for each of all
three of fortran, C, and C++ compilers.
I guess I was stuck thinking of undergraduate education; in the UNC catalog
I can find Lisp, python, pascal even, but neither C++ nor fortran, but
those languages simply may not be mentioned as requirements.
But of course, undergraduates are "kids", graduate students are adults, so
I was still right :-)
Peter

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Joe Landman <
landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote:

> On 05/13/2013 12:30 PM, Peter St. John wrote:
>
> > My bet is that Fortran has the lowest defect rate, because no-where on
> > the planet is any inexperienced kid being rushed to meet a deadline
> > using fortran.
>
> (cough cough) grad school / paper submission / conference poster (cough
> cough)
>
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