From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 23:44:24 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > I started writing Fortran IV in 1975.  Been down a lot of roads since   
   > then.  I've written software in Fortran IV and 77, Pascal, C, C++, Curl,   
   > etc.  They are all running together now, I am getting old.   
      
   You mean “Perl” (the language) instead of “Curl” (which is just a   
   download   
   tool)?   
      
   No Lisp-type languages? Some of them can do your head in. Assembler? SQL?   
   POSIX shells? JavaScript? My favourite, Python?   
      
   Some cool stuff in modern Fortran: free-form layout, with no more column   
   numbers! Format strings can come from expressions within the I/O   
   statement, so there is no more need for statement numbers at all. Types   
   can have a limited form of parameterization, even allowing for function   
   overloading. There are structured types, even object orientation.   
      
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