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 threadZygmunt KrynickiOct 30
@david_chisnall cannot be validated against the output of the F77 tool chain?
Show threadNeil KandalgaonkarOct 30

@zygoon @david_chisnall Agreed, OP’s assertion would indicate you can’t even do maintenance releases of F77 without “revalidating”. Generally frowned upon to add a nuclear explosion to your CI

EDIT: I’m not saying OP is wrong, it just seems really odd and I’d like to see a citation or something that explains it. Quick google turned up nothing for me

Show threadMatt Palmer

@neilk you're making the dangerous assumption of logic and consistency from a (government) bureaucracy.

@david_chisnall

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