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by pjmlp 205 days ago
Which since Fortran 2003, or even Fortran 95, has gotten rather nice to use.
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IDK it's become too verbose IMHO, looks almost like COBOL now. (I think it was Fortran 66 that was the last Fortran true to its nature as a "Formula Translator"...)
We are way beyond comparing languages to COBOL, now that plenty folks type whole book sized descriptions into tiny chat windows for their AI overloads.