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beejiu 62 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years b...

If you're using R in 2026, you're probably invoking code compiled from Fortran from the 70s/80s somewhere along the line. It's a foundation for a lot of numerical computing.

jmalicki 61 days ago [–]

Same for SciPy (At least the last time I dove into it around 10 years ago).

A lot of the C code you see for numerics is a straight up f2c run checked in.

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