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1. Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jun-2022 05:34:47 UTC Prof. Sam Lawler

   Today I have a summer research student starting and I'm going to have to let her in on the (somewhat embarrassing) secret that Fortran is still one of the fastest languages out there for what we need to do, then have her install a fortran compiler. Welcome to the future, student!

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   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jun-2022 05:34:55 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     @sundogplanets I remember reading somewhere that Britain's Meterological Office still extensively use Fortran, and indeed they do...

     https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/weather/weather-science-it/fcm

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   • G 🇮🇹 (ranx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jun-2022 05:35:10 UTC G 🇮🇹

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     @sundogplanets Fortran was the language mentioned in the movie Hidden Figures. it's good if it is still useful 60 years later 🙂

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   • Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jun-2022 05:35:23 UTC Colin the Mathmo

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     @sundogplanets

     (You probably know all this)

     As is common knowledge, the dedicated "Real Programmer" can write Fortran programs in any language.

     One skill you can help impart is to help them write well-structured, well-architectured, well-designed code in Fortran. The skill of how to write understandable, maintainable code is transferrable between languages.

     I remember writing and maintaining Fortran code ... it *can* be clear and a delight to work with. Help them on that path.

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