Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.9805.1399597367.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On 08 May 2014 16:04:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> 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