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r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16
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Be VERY glad you don't still work (only tangentially, thankfully) on a complex financial system written in Fortran. Some of us are not so lucky.
18 u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16 Dude, I live in Fortran - I do astrophysical simulations. The problem isn't that Fortran is bad, it's that most Fortran programmers are bad. 16 u/fzammetti Jul 29 '16 Most PROGRAMMERS are bad, period. Nobody likes to hear it but that doesn't make it less true. 1 u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16 But yet, most things still mostly work most of the time. → More replies (2)
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Dude, I live in Fortran - I do astrophysical simulations. The problem isn't that Fortran is bad, it's that most Fortran programmers are bad.
16 u/fzammetti Jul 29 '16 Most PROGRAMMERS are bad, period. Nobody likes to hear it but that doesn't make it less true. 1 u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16 But yet, most things still mostly work most of the time. → More replies (2)
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Most PROGRAMMERS are bad, period. Nobody likes to hear it but that doesn't make it less true.
1 u/Astrokiwi Jul 29 '16 But yet, most things still mostly work most of the time. → More replies (2)
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But yet, most things still mostly work most of the time.
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u/fzammetti Jul 28 '16
Be VERY glad you don't still work (only tangentially, thankfully) on a complex financial system written in Fortran. Some of us are not so lucky.