[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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