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Programming Throwdown

Fortran

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This show covers Fortran: An old (but still very useful!) imperative language for numerical calculations. Books of the Show Jason: A Theory of Fun in Game Design http://amzn.to/1FShtR6 Patrick: Monster Hunter International http://amzn.to/1EeqWO2.

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0:15.5

Programming Throwdown, episode 42, Fortran.

0:19.7

Take it away, Jason.

0:24.1

Hey, everyone, so we got some interesting listener feedback. We got a lot of interesting listener feedback. One of them in particular,

0:29.1

listener feedback is interesting. That's true. Just put it out there. We got, we love you guys.

0:34.7

feedback of which all was interesting.

0:41.6

And one in particular was strong versus weak typing.

0:48.6

So somebody corrected me and said that Python JavaScript are strongly typed languages.

0:56.0

And I remember like kind of having this debate with somebody at the time, but it didn't really get, we didn't have smartphones. And so it didn't get resolved.

0:58.0

So I went and looked into this and it's actually really interesting.

1:02.0

This one's like as engineers and scientists, like our field is kind of very sort of pedantic and deterministic and sort of explained very well.

1:12.5

That's kind of part of our nature.

1:14.7

But this is one of those things.

1:16.3

It's completely up to interpretation.

1:19.5

So are you saying you're wrong or not?

1:21.4

Because I don't want to have to print another attraction.

1:25.0

So actually, nobody's right.

1:29.8

So this is the, so there's a kind of right. I know, there's a gradient.

1:31.7

On one side of the gradient is the most weekly typed languages like Ruby or R or, you know,

1:40.9

like languages like that where there's no type system and there's no type errors so for

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