Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:36:11 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   There's always a psychology in the computer world that immediately
   embraces the "Newest/Greatest Thing"
   whether it's actually good/improved or not. Shit, I remember when 'C'
   was in that category ... that one DID hang on

That's something that's puzzled me all of my life and on a wider scale
than computer languages. Why does Religion X survive while Religion Y,
which is equally as plausible/implausible become an also ran? Why does C
hand on while C++ never quite lived up to its promises? Why is Pike
completely off the map? It isn't that bad of a C-like language?

Some things live the AC vs. DC wars have valid technological answers.
Others like the i86 architecture seem more like accidents at a point in
time.