Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 18. Oct 2024, 05:17:28
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:50:46 -0400,
186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
The need for it has been 'depricated'. However it was one of the more
confusing bits of the language. You can still see vestiges of it in
some Python, even Pascal, fine-formatting commands however.
C did it better. That’s why so many other languages copied the C-style
printf language, not Fortran’s FORMAT system.