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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. Nothing for you to see here, please move along. by Silverlancer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Believe it or not, you can write good Fortran, as well as bad Fortran." Is this new? Can't any programming language be written in a "good" or "bad" fashion?