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> FORTRAN It's spelled Fortran since the 1992 standard, which was a huge improvement, and now since the 2003 and 2008 standards, Fortran is a pretty decent lan
by sampo 13y ago
> FORTRAN
It's spelled Fortran since the 1992 standard, which was a huge improvement, and now since the 2003 and 2008 standards, Fortran is a pretty decent language.
But a funny thought occurred to me: year 1992 is now 21 years ago, but ignorance of the difference between FORTRAN 77 and modern Fortran continues strong. In next 5 year or so we'll start to get Fortran-ignorant comments from people who are younger than the "Fortran 90" standard from 1992.
The language was updated before they were born, but they haven't yet noticed it.
- adestefan 13y agoI'm embarrassed to say that I actually know this, but it's so ingrained to type it in caps. I even did it twice in this thread. It was an interesting exercise in college when I took a class on numerical methods and some programs where in "old" style while other were in "new" style. It made the non-programmers go bonkers.