Re: OT An old conversation remembered.
- From: "Rune Allnor" <allnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Sep 2005 10:57:19 -0700
Jerry Avins wrote:
> I'm sure this is an experience most of us share.
>
> Colleague: This code won't run since I recompiled it.
> Guru: What did you change?
> Colleague: Nothing.
> Guru: Why did you recompile?
> Colleague: Oh.
I have been close enough, but not quite.
I used some arcaic FORTRAN 66 code to compute some subroutine
for analyzing data for my Phd thesis. This code was something
I had inherited from some Guru who had done something similar
to what I did, but where I made some changes to the details
that were not affected by this FORTRAN code.
The code + makefiles for UNIX I got in 1994 compiled on SGI,
HP-UX and SOLARIS with no changes for as long as I needed them
(I compiled the codes the last time on HP-UX in 1999). A year or
so ago, I was leaving my job at the university and some professor
wanted to get these codes up and running before I left.
This time she compiled the code under Windows XP with some Win
Fortran compiler (I don't know which one) and could not get the
program to work. No changes to the code. She eventually worked on
the codes for two weeks before she got the damned things up and
running. I was very happy that she did the grunt work in doing
that, as she was an experienced FORTRAN programmer. I would have
needed a couple of months to get those programs up and running.
I like standardized codes: There are so many standards that
everybody find something after their taste, and each standard
comes with so many options...
Rune
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