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

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 06/07/2012 08:56 PM, jep200404@example.com wrote:
> 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?!)

In this context, the reason for rewriting in a higher level language 
would be to make it easier to verify and to change.  It also makes it 
easier to separate the low level optimization from the hight level 
mathematical and algorithmic choices.

Edward