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Before LLMs a senior engineer carried the architecture in their head, and a deviation from it cost typing effort. An agent generates a deviating structure as cheaply as a conforming one, and it does not remember what it…
Standardized in 2003. Pioneered in 1998. Still missing from a huge share of the code that could use it. Ask a room of backend engineers to compute a running total or rank rows within a group, and a large share will…
A 1957 language, still underneath NumPy, still underneath climate models, still underneath the machines that rank the world’s fastest supercomputers. Fortran shipped its first compiler in April 1957, built by John…