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Old 07-16-2021, 04:21 PM   #203 (permalink)
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The code in global climate models is typically written in the programming language Fortran. Developed by IBM in the 1950s, Fortran was the first “high-level” programming language. This means that rather than being written in a machine language – typically a stream of numbers – the code is written much like a human language.
18,000 pages? How many lines per page? Where do they find Fortan programmers in this day and age?
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