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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:13:03 Dale did opine thusly: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 06/22/2011 07:58 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Mine never had fortran in it at all. I still don't really know |
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>>>> what fortran is. |
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>>> It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. |
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>>> Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to |
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>>> die because people still programming in it are too lazy to |
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>>> learn a proper, more modern language :-P |
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>>> When you enable the fortran USE flag for GCC, you are telling it |
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>>> to compile and install the GNU Fortran compiler. Sometimes USE |
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>>> flags can have more dramatic effects than just enabling some |
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>>> extra functionality; in this case for example, a whole compiler |
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>>> and supporting runtime libraries are built and installed. |
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>> Well he double hockey sticks. That's why gcc compiles faster when |
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>> fortran is disabled. :/ Now I know. I wasn't even born in 1950 |
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>> so I had no clue. Dang, that was when puters were made out of |
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>> vacuum tubes. Talk about a old fuddy. lol |
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> Fortran put Armstrong on the moon. |
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> NASA wouldn't dare let Windows try that, they take one look at Air |
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> Traffic Control or nuclear submarines or Aircraft Carriers or even, |
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> god forbid, Airbus's latest and greatest, and know exactly what NOT to |
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I have a calculator I got from Radio Shack when I was in high school. |
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It's a EC-4020. I read it has more computing power than the puters that |
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were on Apollo or something to that effect. It's hard to believe they |
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had such whimpy puters but could do so much. Funny thing is, I'm not |
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sure we could go to the moon now. I know I wouldn't get on one. Then |
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again, I don't fly either. I have told people that if they see me on a |
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plane, close the lid on my coffin. That's the only way I would get on a |
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plane. |
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It's amazing how far things have come but how far off some things still |
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are. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |