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There is tremendous value that often goes unrecognised in taking best of brand routines and packaging them so real people can use them, consistently and reliably over decades.



Sure, that's why people keep doing that: taking the same exact Fortran routine and giving the world access to it from whatever different languages and frameworks are fashionable.




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