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Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

NOV 19, 2008 05:14 PM

Yep, she lost an entire bag of tools.

Including, hilariously, a grease gun. Luckily, I have a spare which NASA can borrow after I'm done lubing the front end of Minimalism's 1969 Buick.

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Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

NOV 19, 2008 05:20 PM

Oh, and the old-tech issues aren't just NASA. Every government agency that buys equipment spec'd by an agency via low-bidder contract has this problem to some extent.

It can take several years to agree on a spec, then another year to write the contract and solicit bids, and more time to get the funds allotted. By the time bids are taken and the equipment delivered, the equipment is often obsolete, particularly when it is high-tech stuff with a rapid generational change.

IIRC there are a fair number of government employees who are hired or kept on solely because they know cobol and other dead computer languages. Your high school Latin teacher would be proud.

sick

sick

Minneapolis, MN
June 2003

NOV 19, 2008 05:28 PM

Stiles said:
IIRC there are a fair number of government employees who are hired or kept on solely because they know cobol and other dead computer languages. Your high school Latin teacher would be proud.



Old programming languages never die. At least not as long as they're in such widespread use as COBOL.

Next you'll be claiming FORTRAN is dead. tongue

Tiger_Fodder

Tiger_Fodder

Braintree, MA
June 2007

NOV 19, 2008 05:36 PM

Sick said:

Stiles said:
IIRC there are a fair number of government employees who are hired or kept on solely because they know cobol and other dead computer languages. Your high school Latin teacher would be proud.



Old programming languages never die. At least not as long as they're in such widespread use as COBOL.

Next you'll be claiming FORTRAN is dead. tongue



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c-----------------------------------------------------------------------
c
c readnet.f
c This file is a fortran template file designed to read the given
c netCDF file into memory.
c
c History:
c Date Name Action
c --------- ------------ --------------------------------------------
c ?? ??? ?? cids Created.
c
c-----------------------------------------------------------------------

c Do not forget to include the -I path_to_netcdf_includes in your
c compile statement
c Required includes.
include 'netcdf.inc'

c Define Variables.
c Variable ids run sequentially from 1 to nvars = 07
parameter (nvars = 7) ! number of variables
parameter (nrec= 8760) ! change this 'to generalize
parameter (ndims = 2) ! number of dimensions
parameter (primary_dimension = 8760)
parameter (position_dimension = 1)
integer*4 rcode ! error code
integer*4 recdim ! record dimension
real*4 sea_level(nrec)
character*1 sea_level_quality_flag(nrec)
real*4 woce_time_of_day(nrec)
character*1 woce_time_of_day_quality_flag(nrec)
real*8 woce_date(nrec)
real*4 latitude(position_dimension
+
+ )
real*4 longitude(position_dimension
+
+ )
integer*4 start(ndims) ! hyperslab starting index
integer*4 count(ndims) ! hyperslab count from start
integer vdims(ndims) ! max # of var dims
character*1024 strbuf ! string buffer for var
! and attr names

c Open netCDF file.
ncid=ncopn('b0033379.cdf',ncnowrit,rcode)

c Get info on the record dimension for this file.
call ncinq(ncid,ndims,nvars,ngatts,recdim,rcode)
call ncdinq(ncid,recdim,strbuf,nrecs,rcode)
c nrecs now contains the # of records for this file

c Retrieve data for sea_level variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 1,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgt(ncid, 1,start,count,sea_level,rcode)

c Retrieve data for sea_level_quality_flag variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 2,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgtc(ncid, 2,start,count,sea_level_quality_flag,lenstr,rc
+ode)

c Retrieve data for woce_time_of_day variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 3,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgt(ncid, 3,start,count,woce_time_of_day,rcode)

c Retrieve data for woce_time_of_day_quality_flag variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 4,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgtc(ncid, 4,start,count,woce_time_of_day_quality_flag,le
+nstr,rcode)

c Retrieve data for woce_date variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 5,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgt(ncid, 5,start,count,woce_date,rcode)

c Retrieve data for latitude variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 6,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgt(ncid, 6,start,count,latitude,rcode)

c Retrieve data for longitude variable.
call ncvinq(ncid, 7,strbuf,nctype,nvdim,vdims,nvatts,rcode)
lenstr=1
do j=1,nvdim
call ncdinq(ncid,vdims(j),strbuf,ndsize,rcode)
lenstr=lenstr*ndsize
start(j)=1
count(j)=ndsize
end do
call ncvgt(ncid, 7,start,count,longitude,rcode)

c ******************************************

c Begin writing statements to use the data.

c ******************************************

c End Program.
stop
end

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