David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 30

I did not have Trump killing the Fortran 77 compiler industry on my bingo card.

(The F77 compiler industry is entirely subsidised by the DOE, because they have a codebase written in F77 that, by law, cannot be modified unless its revalidated. It can be revalidated only by modelling a nuclear bomb exploding then actually exploding one and seeing whether they are the same. They would love to move it to F90 or newer but can't as long as the test-ban treaty is in effect.)

Show threadGeorge Jones  

@david_chisnall I wrote some, er, killer F77 back in the day. You can make recursive function calls (not supported by the language) by passing variables in common blocks and managing them yourself.

I'm glad I haven't done that in 40 years 😕

Oct 30 at 4:37pmWeb