OT: Language for the ages

[Brent Hilpert]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> One nice aspect of FORTRAN is that it's easy to learn a functional subset.
> No trying to understand multiple inheritance and objects.

.. I don't have a reference but I recall seeing or hearing a few years ago that
object-oriented facilities had been added to (the latest version of) FORTRAN. I
was stupefied. It's one thing to be maintaining an old language/sys for legacy
applications,etc., it's another to be bloating it further in an attempt to drag
it into the future.

> Syntax is very simple.

I was perusing my undergrad WATFOR manual a while ago for the first time in a
couple of decades ... can't say I'd agree with simple, at least if simple == regularity.