[Info-vax] [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <as66npFhi88U1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu
(Bill Gunshannon) writes: 

> > Maybe, but Fortran today isn't anything like the one from 25 years ago.
> 
> IMHO hacking OO onto languages desigend for an older paradigm is just
> plain wrong.  Fortran had a specific purpose.  Most o fthe work doing
> that today needs to be very parallel.  I have not wroked much with
> Fortran beyond 77 but I odubt it is optimized for parallel computing.

Actually, many of the more recent additions to Fortran involve parallel 
computing.