Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 2025-03-09, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

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>
   Div0 has been a problem since forever. Fixes,
   if existing, have been kinda non-standard.
   Trying to GUESS if you are about to Div0 in
   the app tends to use up lots of code. Even
   now, not all processors have handy Div0
   exception handling ... I think even ARMs don't,
   or at least don't enable it by default. This
   is just *terrible* for 2025 ... I'd really
   not rather have my brain-surgery robot suddenly
   freeze up because of a stupid Div0 .

... or a military ship:

https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer0-uss-yorktown-4e53837f75b2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)

A friend of mine has a favorite question:

        What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe that question should be asked more often.

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Robert Riches
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(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)