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<p>I get frustrated with C all the time for being fundamentally a 70s language. It may be I'm about to learn the pain of using a *50s language*.</p><p>(Alternately, I hear modern FORTRAN has all kinds of fancy niceties like operator overloading and might not resemble traditional FORTRAN all that much. But then I have the problem if I pick up a random tutorial it's hard to guess which *decade's* standard it's teaching me from, or if it's the GNU extension, if the GNU extension is that different, etc.)</p>
<p>I went into this thinking: C is basically cleaned up FORTRAN, right? I know C? This should be easy, right? Right off the bat I find there will be a lot of difficulties entirely not of the kind I'm used to in programming. After a brief adventure with accidentally naming my file .f and not .f90 causing horrific and baffling errors, I run a hello world off the Internet. There's a space before the printout. Hm, how do I turn that off?</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/31236043" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">stackoverflow.com/a/31236043</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Oh my fuck, *what*?</p>
<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BabelOfCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BabelOfCode</span></a> 2024<br />Week 4<br />Language: FORTRAN</p><p>Confidence level: High</p><p>PREV WEEK: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113867584791780280" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/113867584</span><span class="invisible">791780280</span></a><br />RULES: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113676228091546556" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/113676228</span><span class="invisible">091546556</span></a></p><p>I was very excited about doing TCL this week, but I told myself the first time I get a two-dimensional array problem I'd go FORTRAN, so I guess this week is FORTRAN.</p><p>A friend of mine who did AOC2024 in December noted the early challenges this year were *very* easy. Today's definitely is. I wonder if part 2 will have any depth.</p>
<p>The new trailer for sandbox strategy game Antimatter shows off the epic scale <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-new-trailer-for-sandbox-strategy-game-antimatter-shows-off-the-epic-scale/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-</span><span class="invisible">new-trailer-for-sandbox-strategy-game-antimatter-shows-off-the-epic-scale/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antimatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Antimatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinuxGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Platformers are actually instruments of torture</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Online gaming isn't fun.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> oh I would not submit a patch without following house style, I just find it aggravating to spend time manually indenting code. I wish my editor could just look at the existing sources and deduce the formatting rules to use.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> brotato and balatro are horribly overrated</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> It doesn’t matter how innovative, responsive, polished, aesthetic, charming, or how well written the story or code are: if the predominant gameplay is sidescrolling platforming, I hate it on sight.</p>
