FORTRAN (was Re: indentation)

[Curtis Jensen]

Mitch Chapman wrote:
> 
> Mike Steed wrote:
> > > From: aahz at netcom.com [mailto:aahz at netcom.com]
> > > ...
> > > Hmmm...  I wonder who the youngest person in this group is who has
> > > actually used FORTRAN on the job.  I'm 32; I did the work twelve years
> > > ago.
> >
> > I'm 31.  I used FORTRAN for a (mercifully brief) project, also 12 years ago.
> 
> Thanks for making me feel like both an old man and a member of a
> 12-step program:  I'm Mitch, I'm 35, and I used Fortran eight years ago.
> 
> We once had a programmer who thought C was a dialect of Fortran.
> He wrote the second 1000+-line C function I'd ever seen.
> (The first was an interrupt service routine (!) from Ultrix,
> for the Vaxstation console device.  Unfortunately, I've seen many
> examples since then.)
> 
> --
> Mitch

I'm 22, I've been working on a 15+ year old legacy program in Fortran,
for the past six months.  There is a another guy here who just turned 22
and he has been working on this program for over a year and a half. 
It's a huge Finite Element Modeling program.  I ended up turning a 2000
line Fortran function into 11000+ lines.  We've shrunk it to 7000 now. 
I'm not sure how many lines and files there are total, but it's probably
over 25000 lines.  The entire program is currently a mix of C and
Fortran.  We're mixing in Python now.  We're planning on eventualy
converting the entire thing to C and Python.
You can visit our web page at:
http://cmrg.ucsd.edu/modelling/modelling.html

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