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“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982
by msla 8y ago
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982
It seems every language keeps the same name as it evolves, except Algol/C/C#/Java.
- gnufx 8y agoHoare also said "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in FORTRAN 90". I don't have the source of that, but I think it was the answer to someone asking him about it, reported in some Fortran forum.