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Legacy Code Confessions

Fortran-lang News · Published September 21, 2026

Connor Aird, Andrew Brown, David Kamm, Gina Sitaraman and Dimitrios Theodorakis

Summary

The Fortran community is collecting recognisable patterns that make established code difficult to understand, test and maintain, together with concrete alternatives. The article explains what makes a useful example and how to contribute one. Useful for developers inheriting a scientific codebase or planning incremental improvements. Pair it with fpm when exploring a small build-and-test workflow.