Vasile Surducan wrote:
> Fortran tortured a lot of people

Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but it sounds like a very unfair
statement.  Fortran was the first high level language, and as such it was a
brilliant idea and a major breakthru.  It's unfair to judge it against more
modern languages that had the luxury of seeing what worked and what didn't
in practise.  Even despite that, Fortran got a lot of things right.  The
first attempt at a high level language without real experience with any high
level language could have been a lot worse.  You can only judge a idea in
the context of its own time.

Now if you want to complain about C I won't argue.  The state of compiler
development and the experience with how humans make coding mistakes and how
a compiler can help was far enough along that many design decisions in C
were irresponsible in my opinion, even when judged against the information
available at the time.  C only became popular because it tagged along with
Unix.  I shudder to think of the millions of man-hours wasted over the years
due to bad choices where the C designers should have known better.


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