Still probably in use in a whole load of legacy applications for much the same reasons, and also gets used (still) for research data processing by physicists, astronomers, etc. - though the younger ones will probably use something more modern nowadays (C and Python seem fairly popular with astrophysicists), there'll be plenty who learnt fortran ten, twenty, fifty years ago and still use it.
I had an interesting discussion on this very subject with some friends a while back..
Why Fortran is still the language for scientific use:
Warning for non-geeks and/or non-programmers. Much of the article will probably cause you to bleed from the eyes and ears.
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
very interesting article.. should have stuck to FORTRAN then...lol
though julia sounds good....( the language not that redhead ex PM.... lol)
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Still probably in use in a whole load of legacy applications for much the same reasons, and also gets used (still) for research data processing by physicists, astronomers, etc. - though the younger ones will probably use something more modern nowadays (C and Python seem fairly popular with astrophysicists), there'll be plenty who learnt fortran ten, twenty, fifty years ago and still use it.
I had an interesting discussion on this very subject with some friends a while back..
Why Fortran is still the language for scientific use:
"You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop," Blair wrote of himself in his autobiography A Journey last year, recalling his adoption of the law, which took effect in 2005. "There is really no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate. I quake at the imbecility of it."
<guffaws>
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
"You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop," Blair wrote of himself in his autobiography A Journey last year, recalling his adoption of the law, which took effect in 2005. "There is really no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate. I quake at the imbecility of it."
<guffaws>
I love El Regs by-line on that:
Apart from Dr Kelly coming back from the dead, that is ...
While starting to look at some of the ‘since E:D has been released’ feedback about the game, I came across this pearl of wisdom commenting on E:D’s lack of depth.
“I just want space to feel less empty”
Not that I have any feelings one way or the other about the basic sentiment from the reddit post titled “rant_im_bored_and_its_a_shame_really” because I haven’t actually played it, but given the basic framework of a 1:1 galaxy, it made me smile.
Taking home this week's Golden Vulture Dropping of Excellence is Long John Brass, with this offering on the news that humanity had received a mysterious radio message from beyond our galaxy:
[tight beam, M32, tra. @n4.28.885.1008]
xROU Killing Time
oGCV Grey Area
Hey ... wanna see the monkeys freak out?
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
Ergot poisoning used to be a fairly common occurrence until humans worked out it was bad for them: the substance has been linked to odd behavior within medieval cults and during the Salem Witch trials, and the installation of Windows on seven-inch tablets.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
One story insight that Adams – who was notorious for missing deadlines – gave during the interview, which has never made it into print before, came when I commented that Hitchhikers was famously written on a typewriter using thin carbon paper, with scripts being finished during recording. Adams was also a pioneer of home computing, and as he says here, a fan of the Macintosh. I asked if there was any difference between writing on a typewriter and a computer, and he said that when using a typewriter you could only stare out of the window, while with a computer you had a whole world of distractions.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
Indeed! There's a good piece in the Grauniad about Neil Gaiman giving the annual Douglas Adams lecture last week – also comes with a video of the lecture itself. Books are sharks, and encyclopaedias are plesiosaurs!
However, it makes light work of sleeping policemen and I was reminded of driving a (pink) Rolls Royce Silver Shadow over rumble strips which it didn’t seem to notice and thinking “yes, traffic calming is for poor people".
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
Indeed! There's a good piece in the Grauniad about Neil Gaiman giving the annual Douglas Adams lecture last week – also comes with a video of the lecture itself. Books are sharks, and encyclopaedias are plesiosaurs!
Tanks for that link Disembodied... just watched it and throughly enjoyed it...
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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The governor of Wakayama Prefecture, Yoshinobu Nisaka, said it was important the practice of using feline staff at the railway station was maintained. Another cat, called Nitama, has since become an apprentice station master.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
