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> "I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran." —Tony Hoare Kemeny and Kurtz described Fortran as "ol
by TMWNN 2y ago
> "I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran." —Tony Hoare
Kemeny and Kurtz described Fortran as "old-fashioned" in 1968! <https://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle/index.html https://dtss.dartmouth.edu/sciencearticle/index.html>
- randomdata 2y agoHence "I don't know what the language [...] will look like". Hoare seems to have made that remark around the same time work to redesign Fortran, what eventually became Fortran 90, began. Presumably he was aware of that effort and thought that Fortran would be able to keep reinventing itself as future needs dictated.