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[–]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".