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    A look at FORTRAN unit test frameworks

    22 July 2014

    A look at FORTRAN unit test frameworks Posted by … I was to develop a suite of unit tests. TPLS is written in FORTRAN and while there are de-facto standard unit test frameworks for Java ( JUnit ) or Python ( PyUnit ), for FORTRAN there are none. In this blog post I look at the test …

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    Survey on the benefits of continuing Fortran standardisation

    21 September 2018

    Survey on the benefits of continuing Fortran standardisation Posted by s.aragon … Image courtesy of ffejery The BCS Fortran Group committee has developed a survey to quantify the value of modern Fortran standards to organisations and individuals, and to …

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    Unexpected changes to storage of local variables when compiling Fortran with OpenMP

    23 August 2018

    … changes to storage of local variables when compiling Fortran with OpenMP Posted by s.aragon on … changes to storage of local variables when compiling Fortran with OpenMP” Language: Fortran 2003/2008 Code: ONETEP ( …

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    From Punchcards to Particle Accelerators: Modernising Fortran

    08 May 2019

    From Punchcards to Particle Accelerators: Modernising Fortran Posted by s.aragon on 8 May 2019 - … and 5th of April I attended a workshop on modernising Fortran at the University of Manchester . In technological terms, Fortran is kind of a living dinosaur, like a crocodile. The …

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    Introduction to Fortran 95

    14 November 2014

    Introduction to Fortran 95 18-19 August 2014, Culham … course from a pedagogic angle: How do you teach someone Fortran (or any other coding language for that matter?) The basics of Fortran programming were covered: Input and output, data …

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    Code For Thought: Hello Fortran!

    05 September 2023

    Code For Thought: Hello Fortran! Posted by d.barclay on 5 … Despite the fact that Fortran has been around since the 1950s, it remains a very … Thought SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt discusses the origins of Fortran, how to deal with legacy (Fortran 77), how the …

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    Relearning Fortran through the medium of Star Wars

    10 October 2014

    Relearning Fortran through the medium of Star Wars … more to READABILITY of a code and is prevalent in many a FORTRAN code I have encountered. The parallel to Han … communication." I bet one of those doesn’t include FORTRAN error messages. One element I would say is missing …

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    Ask Steve! - To C or Not to C: which programming language should I use?

    25 January 2011

    … to admire and use my code. Everyone else seems to use Fortran round here, and I’m not sure that’s a good … good for many different applications, but trying to use Fortran to develop an HTTP server for example, well, … Just no. You mention that others around you are using Fortran.  Assuming they are in the same field of study as …

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    How do we improve research software usability for non-developers?

    05 April 2016

    … Coding standards , or the UK Met Office’s Fortran 90 Standards ). They may use style checkers and … and googletest for C++, FRUIT for Fortran, py.test and nosetests for Python, … generation system (e.g. Doxygen for C, C++, Fortran or Python; Docstrings and Sphinx for …

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    Free help to forge better software

    30 September 2014

    … numerical simulation software, TPLS , to develop a Fortran FRUIT -based unit test suite for the software, to …

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