C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 20, 2019 18:06 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152)
Parent article: C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Regarding the woodpecker problem, I wonder how many of us in the industry that have worked at or visited places where there is this one server in the rack somewhere that "oh that one we *never* touch no matter what happens".

C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 20, 2019 18:27 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I've migrated us off of a few of those kinds of machines (or even people for some processes!) at my current job. Luckily we do sometimes find time to carve out for such things. Not as often as I'd like, but often enough for actual progress.