Fortran

general-purpose programming language

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Episodes

#5813: How Python Became AI's Default Language

Python was never designed for science. So how did a general-purpose scripting language end up carrying the entire AI industry?

Oct 9
#5256: Ruby Won the AI Benchmark. Is It Dying Anyway?

97% of public Ruby repos sat untouched for six months — yet Ruby beat Python in an AI coding benchmark. What's actually declining?

Sep 16
#5255: When AI Writes the Code, Who Checks It?

If agents write the code, the human job becomes knowing when it's wrong. What that means for languages, jobs, and CS degrees.

Sep 16
#5184: AI Is a Number Factory, Not a Wordsmith

Under the prose, every AI model is just matrices of floating-point math. So where does the randomness actually come from?

Sep 11