re: #162 LudwigVanQuixote

Well, I promise that no one would turn down better and spiffier computers.

I wholeheartedly agree that Fortran should be illegal - in a perfect world.

One of the major problems though is legacy equipment and the cost of new equipment.

If you have a great piece of equipment that works great, gives solid data, and costs tens of thousands - and worse there really is no easy replacement save building your own from scratch because the company that made it is out of business or discontinued the device or whatever - and you can only talk to the damn thing using floppy disks and Fortran, then well, that is what you have.

Another thing is, you might have enough money in your group to get the new spiffy thing, but no money for a grad student to do anything with it left over.

Exactly Ludwig…We invest in new code and great hardware for our Scientists…They deserve nothing less..
I think all climate data should be in C++ Because it can handle complex matrix mathematics and is a structured language that allows a million lines of code with no problems at all.