Re: How old is the average Fortran programmer?

Craig Powers wrote:
James Giles wrote:
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The main advantage Fortran has is legibility. I've yet to see
a C++ programmer achieve it.

I've never had problems reading my C++ code. I find it more legible
than F77 or earlier vintage Fortran.

Well to quote a rather clever person in this thread (:-):

The fact that a few extensively trained experts can manage
to use the complexity of a poorly designed language well doesn't
make it a good language. A language's quality is determined by
how well *average* programmers use it.

And ... I haven't seen your code. Nor do you have any
evidence that anyone other than yourself would find it
legible. Still, there are occasional exceptions to generalities.
That doesn't make the gist of the generality false. C++ is
seldom legible even to those that write it.

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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