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1. myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:35 UTC myrmepropagandist

   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! 🥰

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   • Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️ (rayhindle@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:34 UTC Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️

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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.

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   • myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:38 UTC myrmepropagandist

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     The ancients walk among us even now and boy are they cranky.

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   • John M. Gamble (jgamble@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:39 UTC John M. Gamble

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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.

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   • Steve Gisselbrecht (stevegis_ssg@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:41 UTC Steve Gisselbrecht

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     @futurebird
     I only recently learned that an R function I use all the time is actually written in FORTRAN.

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   • Tim Kellogg (kellogh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:47 UTC Tim Kellogg

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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

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   • MikeK (mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:22:55 UTC MikeK

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     @futurebird

     Just did a quick check.
     I'm older than Fortran by three years

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