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"It has horrible string support", this is untrue. Learn Fortran 2003, 2008, 2018.

• xioxox 6y ago
  What? Where is this good string support in Fortran 2003, 2008 and 2018? I must have missed it in the manual. Now you can allocate a string of a non fixed size - simply amazing technology! Actually, one of my compiler crashes was trying to use this revolutionary feature.
  • pantalaimon 6y ago
    > Now you can allocate a string of a non fixed size - simply amazing technology! That’s more than what C gives you out of the box ;)
    • smabie 6y ago
      Many languages forbid mutable strings. They aren't really a very good idea, imo. Even less of a good idea are extensible strings. More complex data structures are required for efficient extensible strings, and this complexity shouldn't be hidden in a simple interface. Better to have a Buffer type or something that is distinct from the String type so programmers are made aware of the performance/allocation characteristics. Though, this is kind of ridiculous to even talk about, since the CPU and compiler itself are responsible for the greatest sins of hiding something unimaginably complex behind a simple interface. Ah, the joys of the 6502 and the Commodore 64!
      • benibela 6y ago
        Delphi had mutable xor aliased strings. That is really great. Each function can change the string as fast as a mutable string, but once it shared with other functions, they can be certain that it will not be changed randomly
• m463 6y ago
  Or just bite the bullet and learn how format statements really work. ;)