What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

[Thomas G. Marshall]

John W. Kennedy coughed up:
> alex goldman wrote:
>> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Strong
>>> typing has been a feature of mainstream programming languages since
>>> the late 1950's.
>>
>>
>> Is Fortran a strongly typed language? I don't think so. Strong
>> typing has been invented in the 70's, if I'm not mistaken, when ML
>> was invented, but strong typing has never been mainstream.
>
> I begin to believe that I have been reading naughty references, and
> that I should rather have said "statically typed".
>
> I am not familiar with modern Fortran. Surely it at least has argument
> prototyping by now?


There are some fortran advocates that pop into here now and again.  Frankly, 
I'm spooked by how far fortran seems to have come.  There is even OO support 
now.  OI.

I preferred the old days of thinking that fortran sucked "just 'cause".  :)


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