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SUMMARY:Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards - Simon Clif
 ford - RSE\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Jack Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:Fortran was summoned by IBM's warlocks nearly 70 years ago. So
  should we still be interested in this crusty old programming language?\nC
 ome with crusty old Simon as he opens the vault and delves into some disti
 nctly not-modern Fortran.\n\n* GASP as we use pointers in a language that 
 doesn't have pointers.\n* THRILL as we cast between types without knowing 
 we're doing it.\n* GROAN as we make whitespace important years before Pyth
 on thought of it.\n\nHybrid Zoom details will be emailed to the RSE mailin
 g list\; if you are not on the list\, please contact the organisers.
LOCATION:West 1\, West Hub
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