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Degenerate Conic
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Degenerate Conic is a personal blog at degenerateconic.com about programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on Python version end-of-life policy, contrasting Python's breaking changes with Fortran's commitment to backward compatibility. Only one comment, which quotes the post.
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What Hacker News says?
But 30 year old Fortran code should compile and run with no problems, unless it used something non-standard, shouldn’t it? In which case, the problem is not the evolving Fortran standard, but the use of non-standard compiler features. “The Fortran standards committee generally refuses to break backward compatibility when Fortran is updated. This is a good thing (take that, Python), and code written decades ago can s…
Comment linking /backward-compatibility/
on “All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL”Submitted A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem as a story · 117 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Features of Fortran 202x as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting Legacy C++ Code to Modern Fortran as a story · 1 points
HN discussion