Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/17/25 5:36 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:39:37 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    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.
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    Basically "man-splaining" - but in paperback

 He doesn't really man-splain but uses nautical terminology that most
readers would gloss over.  There is a joke in sailing circles about a
newbie who was instructed to let out the sheet but not make it fast who
went into slow motion.

   Well, don't let out the sheet TOO quickly !

I forget which mystery author laid a little trap for his readers when he
described the character releasing the safety on a revolver. When the
complaints rolled in he pointed out he had written in one of the very few
revolvers to have had safeties.
  

    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.

 According to 23AndMe my ancestry is over 96% German which corresponds to
what I know about my ancestors, which isn't much. The oddity is the Y
chromosome, I M253.  Currently the highest concentration is over 50% of
the males in  Västra Götaland, Sweden, and it spreads out from there.

   "German" is kinda split - northern, far more 'nordic',
   while southern ....

The haplogroup is associated with the early hunter-gatherers, not the
farmers that moved in from the mid-east causing the neighborhood to go to
hell.

   Long back, people were moving ALL around. It was
   genetic/cultural chaos. "English" was kinda 'black
   African' to a fair degree until the west Russian
   "Beaker People" moved in. The famous Otzi "ice man"
   was mostly Turkish. Any NAZI notions of "genetic
   purity" are just TRASH.
   As soon as the ice-age glaciers started to recede,
   seems like everybody - Africa, middle-east - just
   immediately moved north to see what was there and
   grab what they could.