There used to be POSIX standards for both Ada and Fortran as well a C (POSIX.5 and POSIX.12). Though I don't think they can be described as successful. If I re

There used to be POSIX standards for both Ada and Fortran as well a C (POSIX.5 and POSIX.12). Though I don't think they can be described as successful. If I remember right, the Fortran one was defined in terms of the C one, but the Ada one was written as if it was an independent specification. I suppose this was only possible because POSIX misses out a lot of the fiddlier bits of Unix anyway (and the Ada one specified a spawn to use instead of fork+exec).