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		Ensorceled on Aug 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python Is Eating the World Fortran IV? But yeah, Fortran was the goto tool for mathematics, simulations, etc. for the same reason Python often is today: libraries and existing code. I had to convert a simulated annealing algorithm from Fortran to C in the '90s

C1sc0cat on Aug 13, 2019 [–]

In the 90's it would should been F77 or later if they where stuck on Fortran IV in the 90's I am not surprised Python was invented.

Why did you convert the algorithm from Fortran to c seems a waste of time to me, unless it was a training exercise.

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