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On 10 May 2024 21:48:01 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> It isn't your grandfather's Fortran. In looking through some old books I
> have I realized the Fortran 77 book is completely out of date.

Fortran has really changed from about Fortran-90 onwards. You can write 
code free-form, with semicolons to demarcate your statements. It has 
“coarrays” for conveniently dividing up computations among massively 
parallel hardware. It has structures and object orientation (though it 
insists on its own terminology for some things, like “type-bound 
procedure” instead of “method”). It has a limited, yet useful, form of 
type parameterization. It has function overloads. It has pointers.