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It is great to see type annotations! A huge step in the right direction.
by user2049 6y ago
It is great to see type annotations! A huge step in the right direction.
- enriquto 6y agowe are slowly approaching the ease of use and efficiency of fortran. In a few decades more we'll be there!
- gugagore 6y agoI assume you say it at least a bit in jest, and with a good deal of sincerity. Did you ever know an interactive environment for producing Fortran code? Anything like a REPL?
- cycomanic 6y agoIn development, but there is lfortran: https://lfortran.org/ https://lfortran.org/
- klyrs 6y agoModern fortran has classes, too! I've occasionally joked that fortran 25 and python 4 are to be the same language...
- teddyh 6y ago“I don't know what the language of the [future] will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” — Tony Hoare, 1982
- jabl 6y agoThe next step after type annotations will be having the type specified by the first character in the variable name.