Comment on Toward Modern Fortran Tooling and a Thriving Developer CommunityComments−ogogmad4y"Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language that remains in use today"This is like the ship of Theseus, except where the ship has changed from a fishing vessel to a dreadnought.−leephillips4y“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”-- Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982−jhgb4yBattleship of Theseus it is, then.−actinium2264yAircraft Carrier of Theseus it is, then.−174SIGSEGV4yWe joke, but there actually was an aircraft carrier by the name HMS Theseus. It was under construction towards the end of the Second World War, and deployed to Korea in 1950.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Theseus_(R64)
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"Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language that remains in use today"
This is like the ship of Theseus, except where the ship has changed from a fishing vessel to a dreadnought.
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
-- Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982
Battleship of Theseus it is, then.
Aircraft Carrier of Theseus it is, then.
We joke, but there actually was an aircraft carrier by the name HMS Theseus. It was under construction towards the end of the Second World War, and deployed to Korea in 1950.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Theseus_(R64)