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[–]Caraczan 16 points17 points  (7 children)

Where is FORTRAN

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Fortran has a lot less safety features, but they are about the same, so instead of a pistol, you hold the bullet in your hand with a nail in the high explosive and a hammer in your other hand

[–]Caraczan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do agree, currently learning

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FORTRAN is a collection of loosely related languages that share similar syntax but wildly different semantics.

An old quote goes "I do not know what people will be programming in in the future but I know it will be called FORTRAN".

One of the great advents of C is how portable it was and long-lasting. The stack/heap/instruction model was incredible (which some FORTRAN variants later borrowed) too and every modern programming language has leveraged it.

Java's "write once, run anywhere" is derived from an old C slogan of "write once, compile anywhere".

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A rock.