[Info-vax] [OT] Current students apparently can't read Fortran code...

[gah4]

On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 1:10:22 PM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> From https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/13/climate_mit_fortran/ 
> 
> |CLiMA made the determination that old climate models, many of which were 
> |built 50 years ago and coded in Fortran, had to go if there was going to be 
> |any progress toward better climate models. Now that he's working at MIT on 
> |the CGC project, he's realized that "traditional climate models are in a 
> |language [MIT] students can't even read." 

I can believe that they can't write it, but it isn't all that hard to read, or learn to read.

There have been languages over the years that I knew I could read, but didn't (yet)
know well enough to write.