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[Scott Dorsey]

bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>As I understand it Fortran (much like COBOL) added a  lot of junk
>that had nothing to with the intended function of the language.
>In the case of COBOL, thankfully, it was mostly ignored by true
>practitioners of the art.  Fortran did not fare as well.

This was the case after fortran90.  But the stuff added to fortran90
was very much consistent with the intended function of scientific
programming.  Stuff like vector and matrix operations makes a lot of
code using matrices easier to write and clearer to understand, as well
as easier for the compiler to vectorize.

Some of the stuff added in the layers after fortran90 have been 
messy, like pointers.  Engineers shouldn't be allowed to touch 
pointers.  Coroutines are kind of cool though.
--scott


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