<story><title>The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries</title><url>https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-perils-of-polishing-long/5444</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zippyman55</author><text>My favorite personal Fortran story: I was passing by a WAY SMARTER THAN I COULD EVER HOPE FOR guy who was pouring over a two inch Print-out of some scientific code. He had been trying to troubleshoot a problem. I guess a comma was in the 80th column, which I recall presents an error. In my passing by, I pointed out the error (one second) and I always had his respect after that.</text></comment>
<story><title>The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries</title><url>https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-perils-of-polishing-long/5444</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Koshkin</author><text>Fortran 66 was the pinnacle as a no-nonsense practical programming language. No semicolon cancer, no fancy brackets, just code that looks like code. Beautiful (in a nerdy kind of way, by today’s standards).</text></comment>