Gregory's ServerI love the Fortran website made in the style of modern programming language websites: https://fortran-lang.org/
Especially since like 70% of the selling points are accurate and yet identical to the ones on the rust website
nytpu
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Aster
@nytpu fortran is honestly a good language from what I've seen and heard of it, like it actually does compiler optimization super well
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Vertigo #$FF
@amirouche @theruran @nytpu No, it needs more apostrophes. The parentheses are for the Lisp website. ;)
theruran 🌐🏴
@nytpu yeah, it's a perfect place for it! I am sure they would be receptive, but I'd like to get something built first to show them. Probably static HTML and CSS files would be just fine! Nothing fancy required.
theruran 🌐🏴
@nytpu that sounds good! maybe include a list of possible sections of the website? there are some good examples to follow, I am sure you know them already. 
amirouche 🌱
I understand why my father was doing research with FORTRAN: > Natively parallel /me mouth open, eyes blinking
amirouche 🌱
I guess it was a cray-1, I did not ask. ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 He was researching ways to automate making single-threaded source code execute on multiple threads / multiple cores.
nytpu
@amirouche Eh, unless he worked for the (US) government it probably wasn't a Cray-1. AFAIK there was a ton of research into parallel computing at that time because of the success of the Cray supercomputers and just because it's easier to put a bunch of CPUs together than it is to make an individual CPU equivalently powerful 
Andrew Cassidy
@amirouche @nytpu I love the cray 1 for the sheer audacity to make a supercomputer that doubles as a sofa
Robo-Bunny Jane
@cinebox @amirouche @nytpu And if you spell it out or sound it out, it's like a crayon. Cray One. Someone at Cray was having fun.
Vertigo #$FF
@amirouche @nytpu Fun fact: BASIC was strongly inspired by Fortran, and the original dialects even directly supported vector and matrix math operations. 
Elias Mårtenson
@vertigo @amirouche @nytpu Even more fun fact, BASIC was one of the supported languages on the CDC 6500. 
Vertigo #$FF
@mhd @nytpu Did you mean PL/I? PL/M is an (incompatible) subset for the Intel 8080 processor. It's what CP/M 1 through 2.2 were written in. I reviewed PL/I some time ago; it's not a bad language either! I wouldn't mind hacking in it. (And its syntax isn't entirely unfamiliar to me, having ARexx coding experience as well.)
mhd
@vertigo @nytpu Nah, PL/I would almost make sense, I'm going for weirdness, so that if the prediction comes true, my powers of clairsentience would be regarded way higher. Regarding syntax, one obviously would have to convert to braces, as that seems almost like the sole predictor for language success these days ;) |