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

[John Hearns]

> I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software.
Software as malt whisky... I like it.
 Which reminds me to ask re LECBIG plans?

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:28, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:

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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).
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> 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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