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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:17:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:50:46 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> The need for it has been 'depricated'. However it was one of the more
> confusing bits of the language. You can still see vestiges of it in
> some Python, even Pascal, fine-formatting commands however.

C did it better. That’s why so many other languages copied the C-style 
printf language, not Fortran’s FORMAT system.