Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:41:17 -0700, John Ames wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:46:04 GMT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
 

As you say.
 
Also, 'candy cane' didn't note that Southwest had just completed a
complete overhaul of most of their mission critical systems after two
scheduling  meltdowns in 18 months.

 
If anything, it's a graphic object-lesson in the perils of monoculture
and hyper-centralization; but then, we keep getting those, year after
year, and people keep failing to learn from them, because Being Robust
Is Hard, and CEOs don't care about the long term when there's the
quarterly growth report to think about... :/

That goes beyond software. Thousands of contiguous acres of dent corn or
other crops  might not be the best long term strategy for agriculture.