When I was learning Fortran I thought there were some ugly features about it especially its I/O - format statements etc., but what I thought was irrelevant (eve

When I was learning Fortran I thought there were some ugly features about it especially its I/O - format statements etc., but what I thought was irrelevant (even to my lecturers). What people think of it doesn't matter much (most of its critics aren't regular users anyway). It seems to me the only real issues with Fortran are whether the huge legacy of the nearly 70 years of engineering and scientific programs and well-tested subroutines will continue to be used or are declared out of date/useless — and whether the many engineers and scientists who now use supercomputers stop using it and change to something else. I'd put a small wager on that it will likely be around for a while yet (it might even be the first working language to make it to 100).