Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!roy From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 09:42:37 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <87tx91warf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <85eh05cdjx.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <87ha50hagu.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <536b8411$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <536b9308$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <536bab23$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1399729358 13282 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2014 13:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 13:42:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71247 In article , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 08 May 2014 16:04:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > declaimed the following: > > >Personally, I think that trying to be general and talk about "many other > >languages" is a failing strategy. Better to be concrete: C, Pascal, > >Algol, Fortran, VB (I think) are good examples of the "value in a box at > >a fixed location" model. Of those, Algol, Pascal and Fortran are either > >obsolete or legacy, and C is by far the most well-known by people here. > >(For some reason, few people seem to migrate from VB to Python.) Hence, > >"C-like". > > > > Obsolete and Legacy? Fortran still receives regular standards updates > (currently 2008, with the next revision due in 2015). Ars Technica article a couple of days ago, about Fortran, and what is likely to replace it: http://tinyurl.com/mr54p96