But Latin changed quite a bit even after it stopped being spoken as a first language. There are courses in reading Medieval Latin because it isn't that close to

But Latin changed quite a bit even after it stopped being spoken as a first language. There are courses in reading Medieval Latin because it isn't that close to Classical Latin. In regard to Fortran, things are changing too. There's even a Fortran 2018 standard, which is fairly close to Fortran 2008, but would be almost unrecognizable to people who learned Fortran 77 or earlier.