What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

[beliavsky at aol.com]

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

> > I am not familiar with modern Fortran. Surely it at least has argument
> > prototyping by now?

Since the 1990 standard, if Fortran subroutines and functions are
placed in MODULEs, or if INTERFACEs are provided, the compiler checks
that procedures are called with the right types (int or float, scalar
or array, etc.) of arguments.

> 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.

Some Fortranners think the language has gotten too big and complicated,
sounding a bit like C programmers complaining about C++ (I don't mean
that pejoratively).