L. Marcus Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Mmm, commies ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Blundered across a FORTRAN subroutine published 1965, for computing values of elliptic integrals. About 40 lines of code. Arithmetic IF statements (7 or 8 of them). GOTO statements (8 or 9 of those). A DIMENSION statement (two three-element floating-point arrays). No indentation (aside from the 6 columns required by FORTRAN): it's all left-justified. And NO FREAKIN' COMMENTS!!! None this limp-wristed latter-day pointer nonsense. EDIT: I have printed the two pages (out of an image PDF) and tacked those up on my door, with the heading "Eldritch Horrors from Before the Beginning of (UNIX) Time". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 But you haven't posted it here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Shenanigans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 48 minutes ago, Old Man said: But you haven't posted it here... It's in a 50-page image PDF, and I'm in class right now. I'll extract it and post it later today, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Reference: NASA Contractor Report CR-289, published August 1965, "Tables of Elliptic Integrals", by W J Nellis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 I love it, it's like it was obfuscated on purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Whitespace kept to the minimum tolerable within syntax requirements. A real piece of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Some archaeology for FORTRAN a/k/a insane gibberings by some Swedish Al-Hazred. EDIT: A pity it wasn't called FORTRAN666. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 I find it immensely amusing that my senior nuclear physicist colleague's reaction was "And you can still read this as plain as day". Love her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 After the squall line passed through this morning, a golden-crowned kinglet (female) on the suet feeder. First one this winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Meanwhile, time for a new avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 What if he actually kills you for it this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Then I don't have to contend with that nine-day-old stool sample that is our IT infrastructure any more. Win!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 The pair of graphs in the Funny Pictures thread has me thinking back, trying to remember if I have ever used a pie chart, ever, for anything, since high school. I use bar graphs for histograms all the time, but I don't think I use them in any other way. Pie charts, though ... never, and I think it's because there's no good way to show uncertainties in that format. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 But we certainly do love pie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 HA!! Those mindless illegitimate nematode droppings which are IT here STILL have the print queue stopped, BUT they left an overlooked opening in their Great Wall of Moronitude. You CAN plug a thumb drive into a printer and print from that. Once I realized (and succeeded with) that, I burst into song. To the tune of "Clementine", Quote Stupid f***heads, Stupid f***heads, Stupid f***heads, Clementine, Our I.T. are stupid f***heads, Stupid f***heads, Clementine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 The little victories are important, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Well, IT is like Sauron. They must win f--- up absolutely and unrecoverably, or they lose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 I'll need proof that this is the longest running thread ever...is it wearing a fitbit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 What sort of kink are you asking about now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 After a 13-hour day and an 11-hour day, let's see how much sleep I can get tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Today would have been my mother's 84th birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Having hit the students with time-dependent behavior on Monday, today it'll be intrinsically three-dimensional problems. Time dependence for that can wait a week or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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