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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I dive into Fortran77 code regularly. Sweet mother of Neptune! All caps and such short variable names!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Used to do that when I was working in science. I also kinda loved it. Just interesting to intimately experience how people thought back in the 80s. There are surprisingly many Fortran 77 libraries still in use today (they can be called from modern Fortran code).