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FORTRAN isn't the same language either. Much like LISP, it evolved over time. Things like line numbers and GOTO statements that made people hate the language ar
by jhbadger 10y ago
FORTRAN isn't the same language either. Much like LISP, it evolved over time. Things like line numbers and GOTO statements that made people hate the language are not really mandatory -- it is basically as structured as C these days.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt's been evolving a lot. They're at least honest about that as they put the year after the Fortran type.
- rootbear 10y agoObligatory and relevant Hoare quote: “I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Given how things turned out, he might have better said: "I don't know what the language of the future will be called, but I know it will look like C."
- AlexeyBrin 10y agoIn some ways Fortran is more advanced than C and even C++, e.g. had modules since Fortran 90, pure functions and so on ... It is a very different language from the original Fortran.