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How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

Posted by michael on from the snap! dept.

gManZboy writes "In an article that's sure to p/o Fortran programmers, Donn Seeley has assembled a rant that posits there are characteristics of good coding that transcend all programming languages, except Fortran. Seriously though, his point is that early FORTRAN made coding ugly. Thus the joke 'Don't write FORTRAN' was applied to anyone with ugly code. Though Fortran has in recent years overcome its early challenges, the point -- 'Don't write FORTRAN' (i.e. ugly stuff) -- still applies."

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  1. One man's ugly skank... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...is another man's wife.

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Perl certainly proves that.

  2. Xenophobia by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think naming conventions and style conventions are more about compulsiveness and xenophobia than they are about comprehensiveness or maintainability.

    It's not that you can't understand This_Is_A_Big_Name when you're used to ThisIsABigName, it just that it disturbs and annoys you.