(j3.2006) article in _Nature_

[Bill Long]

Thanks, Loren.

The comment about Fortran seemed odd.  What did they mean "would not 
work on their machines"?  gfortran is free and works just about 
everywhere. Did they mean that it could not be compiled with gfortran? 
In my experience, Python is less available on systems than Fortran. And 
why would someone trust the translation?

Cheers,
Bill


Loren P Meissner wrote:
> http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/pdf/467775a.pdf
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> Loren P Meissner
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> ?Truth depends on a quest to discover what?s really out there, what 
> really happened. It isn?t given over to you by simply following a set of 
> rules.? ? Errol Morris
> ?Math education is not something you can dictate. The way to make a tree 
> grow is not to yank it upward by the branches. ? ? Professor Hung-Hsi 
> Wu, UC Berkeley
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> *From:* j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Dan Nagle
> *Sent:* Friday, October 22, 2010 10:00 AM
> *To:* J3 List
> *Subject:* (j3.2006) article in _Nature_
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> Hello,
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> _Nature_467,745-878 for 14 October 2010, on page 775, has an article 
> entitled "...why scientific programming does not compute"
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> It even gets a jab at Fortran.
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> We should not forget code correctness issues.
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> Dan Nagle
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