# Help me understand this Fortran code

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 4, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/help-me-understand-this-fortran-code/1633 "2021-08-04T13:25:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacobwilliams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/jacobwilliams/32/10_2.png) [@jacobwilliams](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jacobwilliams)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/help-me-understand-this-fortran-code/1633/4 "2021-08-04T14:41:42Z")

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Is this yet another example of losing a potential Fortran programmer because they see this terrible obsolete FORTRAN 77 code that looks like it was written 30 years ago? (see [NEK for computational fluid dynamics moving to C++? - #3 by jacobwilliams](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/nek-for-computational-fluid-dynamics-moving-to-c/1596/3))

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