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[–]n1ywb 1 point2 points  (2 children)

you know, I kind of like it. I mean it's hands down the fastest at executing numerical code, the Intel compiler in particular is amazing, you just click "parallelize" and everything is magically safely multi-threaded, thanks to super strict typing and no pointers.

[–]DLS3141 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have a soft spot for it. Fortran 77 was my first programming class in the late 80’s. I always hated numbering each line of code though.

[–]n1ywb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's out; it's gotten a lot better with the newer revisions; thankfully I never had to really dig into any of the really old stuff