Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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Also, you realize that Wirth did not see Pascal as the last word in
programming languages? That he went on to create others that solved
this and other problems in nicer ways? That the fact that the rest of
the world remained fixated on Pascal for some reason, was not really
his problem?
 

If you’re trying to write real-world production code you can’t keep
chasing the language of the week.

And yet you look at the major languages in use today, and they all
continue to bring out significant new revisions periodically, and
developers using those languages for real-world work do indeed adopt the
new features quite enthusiastically.