Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/17/25 1:15 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:35:24 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    Norwegian black metal is preferable !

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-GRWfHLD8
 I've got an album Vikernes made in prison. Not bad considering all they
would give him was a synthesizer. I prefer the more traditional Norwegian
bands.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90SVmnomdM
 Heilung is a mix. It was formed in Copenhagen but has Norwegians, Danes,
and Germans in the band.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8
 Faun is German but has the same feel. This one even has a bagpipe of
sorts.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lFjnlf--Jw
  

    Ah, recently saw a list of "least friendly" countries,
    and Norway was prominent. People said that even if you knew the
    language pretty well the social dynamic was just impenetrable. No
    wonder they went a-viking ... to escape

 When the crops were in there was nothing better to do than take a trip to
Britain or Ireland and liberate ill found wealth from monasteries and
other soft targets. Then there were the ones who went in the other
direction and became the RUs.

   I'll have to research some ... the Rus MAY have
   pre-existed. According to the genetic-flow people
   the early ancestors of Scandies migrated up through
   western Russia and then across into the Scandies.
   The Scandie vikings DID interact with the Rus fer
   sure - probably made them WORSE. So NOW we have to
   deal with it ........
   Positives ... lots of blondes and redheads, one
   of the better group mutations  :-)

I've been reading James Nelson's 'The Norseman Saga' series.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Nelson
 Thorgrim Night Wolf and his son go off viking with his father-in-law to
Ireland. I'm on the 7th book and by now after fighting the Irish, the
Danes, and other Norse all Thorgrim wants to do is go home to his farm but
the Gods don't seem to want to let him leave Ireland. It's set the the 9th
century when Dublin was a Viking settlement. It's particularly enjoyable
since Nelson knows his way around a sailing vessel.

   Um ... before my mother's eyesight got too bad, she
   was complaining about a "mystery" novel she got that
   was writ by a man who knew just TOO much about
   mountain climbing. The amount of technical detail
   from his expertise kinda jammed-up the main story.
   Basically "man-splaining" - but in paperback  :-)
   In any case, the Vikings/Rus were VERY ROUGH PEOPLE
   for quite awhile. Half, really over half, of my
   ancestry is Nordic (the volume of rapes likely
   mean most of the rest is heavily so too). Wasn't
   until around the Norman Conquest that Euro-style
   "sophistication" crept in.