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  Montag, 19. Februar 2007

Thomas Themel: "See, the reason for [why people are still using FORTRAN] is that there's a huge legacy of scientific code in FORTRAN. And since almost all coding on these giant heaps is done by people who are (a) not trained programmers and (b) only on the project for a year or two while working on some kind of thesis, this code is probably among the worst nightmares of a software engineer. [...] Yeah, it's the same problems that enterprise software faces, only there's no money to be made fixing it [...]"

Update: Paul McJones suggests an experiment ...

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