A few years ago, Scott Meyers gave a keynote at the D Language Conference. It was titled "The Last Thing D Needs". The answer given at the end was, "Someone lik

A few years ago, Scott Meyers gave a keynote at the D Language Conference. It was titled "The Last Thing D Needs". The answer given at the end was, "Someone like me". It's a bad sign if your language is so complex that it needs someone like him to write books on how to not massively screw things up. Fortran does not need Scott Meyers. And that's a good thing, because those who program in Fortran are typically not full-time software developers, they are individuals with other things to do that would not ever invest the time to write "proper" C++.