Re: UT Austin doesn't accept Fortran code

From: Aymeric Peyret (peyret.aymeric_at_nospam.ec-lille.fr)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:35:41 GMT

George Hester wrote:
> WH I find it surprising you use the term "expelled." That seems a little harsh. What about the Nunmrical Studies
> group in Mathematics? Don't tell me no one there knows FORTRAN. Why not get a recommandation from Dr
> Broucke for a new Thesis advisor? You may need to go to a different school. I liked Operator Theory but at my
> school no one did it and that is what I was told to do.
>
The title of this post is quite wrong : if there is a problem, it is not
within UT Austin's system, but it is purely a personal issue. The
language chosen for the research purposes depends on the adviser and on
the legacy code. Most of the code done today at UT Austin for Petroleum
Engineering (with specific advisers) is done in Fortran (mostly F90/95
using the Compaq compiler). And if you don't know Fortran and have to
work on a legacy code made in Fortran, then , well, you just have to
learn Fortran...
If the real story is the one you told, perhaps that the language issue
was just a cover for some deeper personal issue.

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