jcgolden Suspended 1394 Posts user info edit post |
FORTRAN somebodys gotta press that button every 8 hours or we're all fucked. Thanks MAE guys. Never thought you'd end up babysitting defunct cold war era devices up in North Dakota huh? I guess those free pay-checks your senior year wasn't such a good deal after all. 8/13/2012 5:23:15 AM |
bbehe Burn it all down. 18402 Posts user info edit post |
What? 8/13/2012 6:17:13 AM |
Novicane All American 15416 Posts user info edit post |
i wrote FORTRAN in all caps on one of programming experience applications. Only had one guy notice it and chuckle. 8/13/2012 7:09:58 AM |
jcgolden Suspended 1394 Posts user info edit post |
well considering I am referring to the old stuff, it seemed appropriate. 8/13/2012 8:05:55 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
gcc supports fortran
so it's gonna be around for a while 8/13/2012 11:43:46 PM |
skokiaan All American 26447 Posts user info edit post |
just as long as gcc is around a while... 8/14/2012 12:03:13 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
dood it's open source and underlies most of the world's webservers and smartphones
it will never die 8/14/2012 1:05:40 AM |
Novicane All American 15416 Posts user info edit post |
there are few select banks that still use this.
plus it's still taught in CSC classes. It's not going any where. 8/14/2012 7:01:18 AM |
skokiaan All American 26447 Posts user info edit post |
^^http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1646230/freebsd-10-to-use-clang-compiler-deprecate-gcc
The times they are a changin.
GCC has to compete or it will fade away. If clang allows much better developer tools (and it certainly appears it does), then people will switch. 8/14/2012 7:56:56 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
Y'alls know NumPy is a thing, right?
Quote : | "plus it's still taught in CSC classes. It's not going any where." |
For aero and mech majors, not for CSC majors.]8/14/2012 9:15:09 PM |
Noen All American 31346 Posts user info edit post |
yeah, gcc is on its way out. clang is the fookin heezy. 8/14/2012 9:16:56 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
LLVM FOR LYFE
j/k lol 8/14/2012 9:23:08 PM |
Wraith All American 27268 Posts user info edit post |
I have read the original post about 5 times and still can't quite figure out what it is trying to say. Why does someone have to push a button every 8 hours? Who is babysitting "defunct cold war era devices" in North Dakota and why? Who was getting free paychecks their senior year and why?
And fyi I use FORTRAN all the time for "serious work". A shit load of the programming done on the Curiosity rover was written in FORTRAN. 8/15/2012 9:20:23 AM |
Senez All American 8112 Posts user info edit post |
All the (good) meteorological models are coded up in fortran 8/15/2012 9:24:09 AM |
dakota_man All American 26584 Posts user info edit post |
Fortran is (still) very good at a few things. 8/15/2012 10:22:09 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
it's called FORTRAN because it once ran a fort, get it 8/16/2012 1:29:33 AM |
Novicane All American 15416 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "For aero and mech majors, not for CSC majors." |
it was thrown into one of my optional 400 level classes. Fortran and mix of other "legacy" languages (BASIC, Prolog, Perl, Lisp). Not a whole course or anything dedicated to it.8/16/2012 6:59:32 AM |
SandSanta All American 22435 Posts user info edit post |
Perl isn't a legacy language. 8/18/2012 1:18:49 AM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
NEITHER IS LISP I SWEAR
it's the official programming language of the gay community lol~♥ 8/18/2012 1:40:09 AM |
Wyloch All American 4245 Posts user info edit post |
Still used to design nuclear reactor cores. 8/18/2012 9:16:44 AM |