[Beowulf] Fortran is Awesome

[Joe Landman]

On 11/28/18 11:29 AM, Stu Midgley wrote:
> I agree 100% .  You can't beat bash and fortran.


Heh ... for me it was Perl and Fortran, circa 1992-1995.  I automated 
some of my work flows.  Which was something rare back then.  Turns out 
leveraging automation for a parametric scan on long running code (back 
then, its fast as heck these days) is a very good thing.

One of my first projects in the late 80's early 90's was trying to use a 
self-consistent field code developed in the early 60's or so.  I 
literally transcribed it from the text in the library, into my editor, 
and then corrected some of the glaringly antiquated bits.  Like the tape 
rewind command.

I wound up developing my own code later, using more modern techniques.  
All in Fortran.

In some ways, I miss using it.

These days, I use Julia, Perl, C, and some Python for most of my stuff, 
though I dabble a little in go (all the cool kids are using it).

But yeah, Fortran is awesome.

>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:02 AM Paul Edmon <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu 
> <mailto:pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Fortran is and remains an awesome language.  More people should
>     use it:
>
>     https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html
>
>     -Paul Edmon-
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