Where to find 'Real' programmers online?

[shriek]

What kind of online communities do hardcore fortran-77 operations research type folk hang out?

 

[Crivens]

Good question. It has been years since I talked to one.

 

[6502]

Try Upwork. Or Usenet group.

comp.lang.fortran in Fortran Wiki

fortranwiki.org

 

[rcbsdpge]

real hardcore programmers program in html

 

[6502]

... program in html

html from fortran: domain.com/index.f77

 

[cracauer@]

real hardcore programmers program in html

Or CSS:

Dave Rupert (@davatron5000@mastodon.social)

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. https://lyra.horse/x86css/

mastodon.social

 

[kpedersen]

What kind of online communities do hardcore fortran-77 operations research type folk hang out?

Digital preservation communities mainly. (I chance upon them occasionally in the various DOS forums more than anywhere else)

I also recommend looking at digital wargaming communities. So many were written in fortran77 back then. At work we were even looking at maintaining a couple.

 

[elephant]

Or CSS:

Dave Rupert (@davatron5000@mastodon.social)

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. https://lyra.horse/x86css/

mastodon.social

I'll just put this here ...

Your browser does not support the CSS features required to run this demo. Please try with an up-to-date Chromium-based browser. Why? (hide message)

Edit:

Why does it only work in Chrome?​

This project uses a few CSS features, such as if() statements, style queries, and custom @functions, that are not available in all browsers. At this time, it's only compatible with Chromium-based browsers, but hopefully that'll change at some point since the features used are in the CSS spec. I usually make sure to target Firefox in the projects I make, but it's just not realistic for me with this one.

Thanks for this. I might learn some CSS.

 

[bakul]

I'd start at https://www.reddit.com/r/fortran/ &/or https://www.reddit.com/r/OperationsResearch/

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I might learn some CSS.

That's like saying "I'll learn some C++."

 

[Espionage724]

That's like saying "I'll learn some C++."

I got tempted and got a book after an early-access game denied me a beta key (apparently too big to hand out freebies even though I only heard of that game once in these forums )

 

[MG]

I knew a guy who was using a matrix printer as CLI stdout because he still had to forge the display tube connector for it. It was some sort of fortran/shell input loop thing. Must have been 1 of them They are extremely rare.

 

[cy@]

What kind of online communities do hardcore fortran-77 operations research type folk hang out?

It's been about 40 years since I last did any Fortran.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

It's been about 40 years since I last did any Fortran.

With pencil and paper.

 

[cy@]

With pencil and paper.

And standing in line waiting to use the only card punch on the floor to make corrections.

 

[lgrant]

It's been about 40 years since I last did any Fortran.

You might give it another look. Modern Fortran, Fortran 90, Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008, and later versions, has grown up to be a pretty sweet language. There is even a CUDA Fortran compiler, originally by PGI, but now part of the NVIDIA HPC SDK, that lets you do parallel processing on NIVIDA CUDA GPUs.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

With pencil, paper and card punch?

 

[atax1a]

try your local university or national lab

 

[Jose]

Real programmers don't write FORTRAN.

The Story of Mel

 

[bgavin]

They hang out on FIDO and dial-up access

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

Real programmers don't exist in real life. They are all bots.

 

[Paul Floyd]

I thought that you were going to ask for assembler programmers rather than one of those fancy new high level languages.

 

[Crivens]

programmers are real, unless declared integer.

 

[blackbird9]

What kind of online communities do hardcore fortran-77 operations research type folk hang out?

Try CERN internal forums, if you can get access. Or maybe LLNL or Sandia. Or Los Alamos...

 

[hasbeen]

I used to hang out, at lunch breaks, with Fortran coders in mid 90's when I was working next to the underground Cray room. I can't find them anywhere now, on or offline.