Fortran, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Stefan Karpinski 2George Fraser 2Viral Shah 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Fortran comes up
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 48:00 George Fraser Uh, Fivetran actually is a pun on Fortran, which the software engineers in the audience will appreciate. 2 times in the scene
A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
- ▶ 3:59 Stefan Karpinski This is, this is, I'll talk about how we unify this, but this dichotomy, you know, that he observed is actually, has led to a pretty standard compromise in systems, and it's actually, it's actually very pragmatic, so for convenience, you…
- ▶ 8:59 Stefan Karpinski We've had the ability to write fast code forever, you know, Fortran was always supposed to be a really, really fast numerical language, but now you can be really, really productive and really fast at the same time.
- ▶ 10:50 Viral Shah Yeah, 800 people, there are 1600 contributed Julia packages, but people keep coming up to us and be like, oh, but, you know, R has 6000, or, you know, JavaScript has a bazillion or something, and, um, you know, the thing is that you could…