Programming for the Planet @propl.dev · Jun 15

"Mind the gap" applies to science says @dorchard.bsky.social: code has an abstract model that's lost on the way to getting results. Why don't we communicate via the code? Programming languages are *too* general purpose to help here. Names have no intrinsic meaning in PLs but are helpful to humans.

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Programming for the Planet · Jun 15

@f.luid.org language moves beyond notebooks to explain itself via literate execution. CamFORT tries to bring units of measure to code. But many of these are partial solutions; what would a complete language solution look like? Fortl is @dorchard.bsky.social's new language! github.com/plas4sci/fortl