[tlug] rewriting a few million lines of Fortran code (was Re: Fortran --> Python (was linux engineer))

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:57:21 +0900, BALUTA Chris <baluta@example.com> wrote:

>  When I was in graduate
>  school (20 years ago...sigh), we had a collaborator from Germany
>  who constructed state-of-the-art stellar atmospheres. I asked him how 
>  big his (fortran) code was. "When I was in grad. school it was a few 
>  million lines...I haven't counted since then.")  So... Who is going 
>  to re-write a few million lines of Fortran code into Python? (And why?!)

Somebody who understands Occam's razor.