OK, but do you know what I mean? I should have said that classic FORTRAN syntax was a dead end. Modern FORTRAN to me looks like "Algol F".
P.S. Apologies but I may be confusing this thread with another (on this or some other list) about Hollerith constants. Which definitely were (semantically) a dead end. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM Van Snyder <van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote: > > FORTRAN was a dead end, both in syntax (line-oriented, line numbers) and > semantics (common blocks, static arrays, very poor string support). > > > Fortran 2025, the sixth edition, is rather different from 1956. > > >
