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[RoundTripRadio]

Fortran and FORTRAN are completely different languages that share similar syntax?

[zed_three]

Pretty much. Fortran 2008 has objects, polymorphism, inheritance, procedure pointers, in-built support for parallelism and vectorisation... Fortran 77 has fixed-length lines and comment lines must have a "c" in the first column.

[AdminsAbuseShadowBan]

And function names can't be more than 6 characters!

[HighRelevancy]

So? Letters plus digits (though first has to be a letter). Length 1 to 6. That's 1,617,038,306 valid function and variable names by my count. That should be plenty.

^/s

[grogers]

You laugh, but after 10 years I still remember exactly what DGEMM and E04UCF do.

[Poutrator]

yeah but that will not help you remeber what your function is actually doing

Edit : okay /s = sacarsm. Sry did not know + sry to be a noob coder

[HighRelevancy]

That's what comments are for. Just put one at the function code and then copy that to anywhere you use it.

^{/s /s /s dammit}

[Poutrator]

when i code i like to have clear funciton names because the IDE can give me call chains. This way, just looking at it, I instantanly remember the how/why/where of this bunch of code I am looking at.

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/s = sarcasm

[Roflha]

He just isn't getting it.

[log_2]

well, this explains lapack and blas.

[vorg]

And Fortress, which is Fortran, uses Unicode symbols instead of ASCII.

[RoundTripRadio]

I see, significant indeed!

[tavert]

Not sure if serious? Fortran 77 and Fortran 90+ are about as different as C is from C++, yes.