The suggestions in the cited article, "How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language", are reasonable but elementary and can be followed in Fortran 90/95/2003 as well as any other language. What infuriates me is that the author writes as if Fortran has not evolved since the 1960s. It has. To be specific, Fortran 90
For myself, I'd be more inclined to say you can write Perl in any language, but the fact that the author used Fortan as his own hated source of unreadable code is beside the point - the entire point of the article is that readability counts, no matter what language you're writing in :)
And that's why the article got published in spite of the jabs at Fortran - those jabs served to explain the source of the author's detestation of unreadable code. Anyone taking such an admittedly biased opinion and using it to form an opinion on _current_ Fortan has problems far bigger than a single article.
Cheers, Nick.
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