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@matigo It's generally quickly confirmed by the ? (trolleybus) emoji. ;)

@matigo I often walk a cemetery and read the names and dates. Every cemetery seems to have a few surprises.

// @larand @jws @indigo

@matigo The main reason given, aside from steering clear of non-Catholic religiosity, is:

The reservation of the ashes of the departed in a sacred place ensures that they are not excluded from the prayers and remembrance of their family or the Christian community. It prevents the faithful departed from being forgotten, or their remains from being shown a lack of respect, which eventuality is possible, most especially once the immediately subsequent generation has too passed away. Also it prevents any unfitting or superstitious practices. [vatican.va]

Guardian appears to have missed that, alongside utterly omitting a link to the primary document, as newspapers do way too often these days.

// @larand @indigo

@larand That comes up:

The Church raises no doctrinal objections to this practice, since cremation of the deceased’s body does not affect his or her soul, nor does it prevent God, in his omnipotence, from raising up the deceased body to new life. Thus cremation, in and of itself, objectively negates neither the Christian doctrine of the soul’s immortality nor that of the resurrection of the body. [vatican.va]

// @matigo

@larand Curse-Only Baphomet-Oriented Language is always welcoming new adherents. ;)

// @phoneboy @jussipekonen @jextxadore @kdfrawg

@kdfrawg F90 and later are pretty neat. F77…I feel bad that so many people are still writing that, especially with the variable name length limitations, and needing to remember to IMPLICIT NONE all the things to avoid oopses…

// @phoneboy @jussipekonen @jextxadore @jws

@nitinkhanna Dunno. I'm not much of a #hashtagger.

// @jws

@c You are correct, I had it wrong.

// @jws @jmreekes @kdfrawg

@jextxadore Fortran is alive and well in engineering and physics.

// @phoneboy @jussipekonen @kdfrawg

@phoneboy Sun put a lot of money into converting college curricula into Java schools, and then the AP followed along a while later, because it tracks colleges.