Post AhkR77TnvyzbOexo7U by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AhkMw77wVO7fIjEbdQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-10T11:36:44Z
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I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰
(DIR) Post #AhkNljNW31xohh8EBE by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2024-05-10T11:45:51Z
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@futurebird Since April 2024, Fortran has ranked among the top ten languages in the TIOBE index, a measure of the popularity of programming languages.
(DIR) Post #AhkNseK9EpAr3Tr5zU by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2024-05-10T11:47:17Z
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@futurebird The first code I ever wrote for money was in Fortran. It was on a VAX 11/780 and I initially wrote it in VAX Fortran, which had a lot of nice structured-programming features, then I had to take all that out and backport it to Fortran 77 for portability. (The proprietary stuff was all printed in blue ink in the manual, which made it easier.) But writing it that way probably made for more maintainable code.
(DIR) Post #AhkR77TnvyzbOexo7U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-10T12:23:02Z
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The ancients walk among us even now and boy are they cranky.
(DIR) Post #AhkRa8TfIsoctBjbAO by jspath55@chaos.social
2024-05-10T12:28:46Z
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@futurebird FORTRAN 4 EVER.
(DIR) Post #AhkTQHMxaZTvTm1fkW by promovicz@chaos.social
2024-05-10T12:49:23Z
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@futurebird Ancients, like Aphrodite‘s lover-boyfriend…
(DIR) Post #AhkbRAVJOm8u6rrqLo by jgamble@fosstodon.org
2024-05-10T14:19:09Z
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@futurebird I'll toss my hat into that ring.Adding to my exasperation, the people who write goto-ridden code to "prove" how bad FORTRAN is. C'mon, people, F77 has been around since 1977, it's in the name.
(DIR) Post #Ahkn0vuqDJHMmn45vk by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2024-05-10T16:28:53Z
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@futurebird I only recently learned that an R function I use all the time is actually written in FORTRAN.
(DIR) Post #Ahl0b6i8qzMO5zhjtY by kellogh@hachyderm.io
2024-05-10T19:01:03Z
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@futurebird ha, BLAS and LAPACK are written in fortran and almost all linear algebra libraries use them for array operations, e.g. numpy. so there’s a chance several of the programs you use are running fortran, especially anything ML/AI related
(DIR) Post #AhlbmOt1JZNVxI2bEO by BangClankBoom@mastodon.social
2024-05-11T01:57:45Z
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@futurebird I ain't even old enough to smoke reefer and I'm pissed.
(DIR) Post #Ahm6gDZ9aW4vgfHRhY by maysonic@twit.social
2024-05-11T07:43:59Z
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@futurebird What can I say? The first dozen programs I ever wrote were Fortran, and they all worked! [back in 1963, in high school, in a Saturday enrichment class at Columbia, running on a NASA 7090] Of course they were trivial…
(DIR) Post #Ahm6z1D9kNIcs5xLIO by Jkp@mastodon.scot
2024-05-11T07:47:22Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Ahm784JxYR4t7eSCHo by Jkp@mastodon.scot
2024-05-11T07:48:59Z
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@futurebird I believe that my (now deceased) next door neighbour was involved in the development of FORTRAN or so he told me once. He did not expand on that statement and now can't.🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #Ahm7NgQUA7SzeCx4qm by gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net
2024-05-11T07:51:58.291332Z
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@futurebird Nothing wrong with loving old stuff. There are people that still create software with Pascal and BASIC.This same argument is thrown at music producers that use old software or retro hardware too. Not everything late and great is better.
(DIR) Post #Ahm7UGndq6PqCAvKaW by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-11T07:53:07.972921Z
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@futurebird Nothing can stop you now.https://fortran-lang.org/compilers/
(DIR) Post #Ahm7ZKNbxKAQkN9ybo by Doll@decayable.ink
2024-05-11T07:54:04.265255Z
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Next mix: phonograph and reel-to-reel only.
(DIR) Post #Ahm7l4ziz3DeVOah5U by mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com
2024-05-11T07:56:02Z
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@futurebird Just did a quick check.I'm older than Fortran by three years
(DIR) Post #Ahm7pqI15G8QLYPy3U by gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net
2024-05-11T07:57:03.599356Z
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@Doll @futurebird Andy Amenz did a Jungle Mix on the Commodore Amiga and recorded it to cassette tape. I think he did banger job for only being 16 years old.https://www.youchu.be/watch?v=tAskNPAh9A8
(DIR) Post #Ahm82AxE4x3PubZfMG by gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net
2024-05-11T07:59:17.307221Z
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@Doll @futurebird Also yes I do want to get a nice vinyl turntable for sampling, thank you for reminding me.