[Beowulf] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: Spark, Julia, OpenMPI etc. - all in one place

[Douglas Eadline]

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> Unfortunately the presumption seems to be that the old is deficient
> because it is old, and "my generation” didn't invent it (which is
> clearly perverse; I see no rush to replace English, French, … which are
> all older than any of our programming languages, and which adapt, as do
> our programming languages).
>

I think this has a lot to do with the Fortran situation. In these "modern"
times, software seems to have gone from "releases" to a "sliding
constant release" cycle and anything not released in the past few
months is "old."

How many people here will wait a 2-6 months before installing
a "new version" of some package in production to make sure there
are no major issues. And of course keep older version options
with software modules. Perhaps because I've been at this a while,
I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software.

I find it odd that Fortran gets placed in the "old software box"
because it works while new languages with their constant feature
churn and versions break dependency trees all over the place,
and somehow that is good thing. Now get off my lawn.

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Doug






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Doug