[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:

> There is a real conflict between the logician's goal and the
> educator's. The logician wants to minimize the variety of ideas,
> and doesn't mind a long, thin path. The educator (rightly) wants
> to make the paths short and doesn't mind–in fact,
> prefers–connections to many other ideas. And he cares almost not
> at all about the directions of the links.

The natural language has a rigorous grammar plus a lexicon that includes
a number of idioms. Nobody has so far been able to codify a natural
language completely because the rigorous grammar consists of maybe
10,000 rules.

Perl came out of the needs of natural language translation. Perl's novel
idea was to make a programming language like a natural language (yes,
there had been Cobol). So Perl's language description evades a complete,
rigorous description, but it has numerous handy idioms for many common
situations.

Python showed that while interesting and amusing, Perl's way leads to
unnecessary clutter. Why make things complicated when simple will serve
everybody's needs best.


Marko