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

[Don Baccus]

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 7:01:04 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/15/2022 9:24 AM, Don Baccus wrote: 
> > On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 5:40:53 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >> But there is a big discrepancy between the actual code and the 
> >> early discussion we had about it here. We started talking II, IV 
> >> and 66. It it is really 77 and 90. 
> 
> > We don't know if they were talking about Model E or not, though.
> True 
> 
> Maybe there are D, C, B and A's. 
> 
> Arne

"Maybe there are D, C, B and A's"

If you find any by those names, let me know.  Perhaps they'd be written in Ada, BCPL, C, or Delphi, though.

Meanwhile, there are dozens of GCMs out there, many if not most written in FORTRAN.

NASA Model E is not the only one by any means. 

For instance, the two professors are from MIT.  There is a MIT general circulation model named, aptly enough, "MITgcm".  

MITgcm is written in FORTRAN.  So it is entirely possible that they were talking about this model, not Model E.