The “does Python have variables?” debate

[Roy Smith]

In article <536c3049$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for 
> accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writing new 
> applications. There may be niches where that does not hold, where people 
> are actively writing new applications in Fortran, but they are niches. 
> Today, Fortran is rarely used for general purpose computing, updated 
> standards or no updated standards.

Oddly enough, my current use of Fortran is via Python.  The scipy and 
statsmodels libraries use Fortran routines under the covers.