23 Mar
2018
23 Mar
'18
10:07 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Steve Johnson <scj(a)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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