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Simon Clifford - RSE, University of Cambridge
Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00
Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards
- đ¤ Speaker: Simon Clifford - RSE, University of Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
- đ Venue: West 1, West Hub
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Abstract
Fortran was summoned by IBM ’s warlocks nearly 70 years ago. So should we still be interested in this crusty old programming language? Come with crusty old Simon as he opens the vault and delves into some distinctly not-modern Fortran.
- GASP as we use pointers in a language that doesn’t have pointers.
- THRILL as we cast between types without knowing we’re doing it.
- GROAN as we make whitespace important years before Python thought of it.
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