[Jtsummers]

I feel like the author is just wasting the reader's time. This thing is 88 printed pages (probably 50 if he had used a reasonable font size) of somewhat dubious history of programming languages, a section of options, and then a long section on his fantasy ideal language to replace Fortran. Finally, in the conclusion, he does a rug pull. The conclusion is that he wants is something like this:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html

Quoting the overlong piece:

> subversion and sedition—Right so, I now divulge my most subversive idea regarding programming language syntax: every programmer on every project ought to be free to choose the syntax he favours. [emphasis in original]

Only he doesn't mention the prior art at all, I'm not sure if he's even aware of it.

[pklausler]

Fortran seems to attract a lot of this sort of thing, perhaps because the language has had no real leadership since the ISO committee began jumping the shark in the 2000’s.