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

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/10/2014 9:42 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.9805.1399597367.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>   Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> 	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:

What might *possibly* replace it.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mr54p96

The article is deficient in that it ignores the 20-year-old combination 
of python with fortran and the facts that the combination gives fortran 
a repl loop and that this combination has already somewhat replaced bare 
fortran.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy