[TUHS] long lived programs
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Sat Mar 24 07:07:27 AEST 2018
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
> Another issue to consider. I once talked with someone who was designing
> nuclear reactors. They had a similar requirement to archive their design
> simulations. But in this case, part of the requirement was to pass some
> standard simulation tests (in FORTRAN, of course). He was complaining that
> these programs had bugs and didn't give the right answer. So they ran the
> corrected programs to make sure the thing would not blow up, and then
> tweaked their parameters so it would pass the buggy program that was
> written into law...
>
> Steve
>
That's not Fortran's problem -- that is our legal system.
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