18 Mar
2018
18 Mar
'18
12:02 p.m.
again, a personal view,
i think fortran 66 was not a great language but by the time 77 came around it was good
enough (especially with rat4 in front)
the problem fortran had was its position in time, in the early days of computer
programming the authors of some large systems tended to be experts in their fields, but
not always good programmers.
in previous jobs i supported both Pafec FE and Flow3d. both of these started out as well
structured systems but where amended by many hackers.
fortran gets the blame for this because fortran was what people used then, but its not the
languages fault.
-Steve