A meta-post on an oral presentation around Fortran and languages Background I was a participant at the 2021 Les Houches school of physics on “Green’s function approach to multiple scattering theory in electronic structure and spectroscopies”. I opted to give a student talk on programming languages and elementary functions as a cautionary tale for IEEE 754. Details Title Programming Language Interstices Abstract In this short talk I will discuss the changing landscape of programming lang...