Re: Wave that shook the world
- From: Steve Lionel <Steve.Lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:08:36 -0500
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:27:02 -0700, "James Van Buskirk"
<not_valid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Did anyone notice that that code shown in this episode of
>Nova contained snippets like
>
> if(dabs( ...
>
>Just goes to show that any reasonable computer model is
>going to be written in Fortran, and that the programmer
>will learn from an oral tradition rather than an actual
>programming class (else why would he use the specific
>form of the intrinsic here.) Also it had to be relatively
>new code (post-f66) because of the lower case characters.
I saw this as well and was watching the code to see if I could identify it. I
saw "enddo" as well. Like a lot of Fortran code, it was probably old code
that had been rewritten and enhanced over the years.
Steve Lionel
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