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> "Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran" <-- the author never programmed in Perl, I presume. Or in Fortran, it's a relatively verbose language from what I rem
by ch_123 6y ago
> "Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran" <-- the author never programmed in Perl, I presume.
Or in Fortran, it's a relatively verbose language from what I remember of it (that said, I learned Fortran 90/95, so maybe the older variants were worse)
- madhadron 6y agoMore likely the author was faced with numerical code in FORTRAN and confused large formulas with the language syntax being heavy in symbols.
- TheRealKing 6y agoModern Fortran (2008/2018) syntax is a bliss. You would almost not notice if your are coding in MATLAB or Fortran with the advantage of your code being orders of magnitude faster in Fortran. Those who criticize the syntax of Fortran have probably not learned anything beyond F77, or at best F90.