Fortran has officially earned the permanent title as the MOST meaningless and useless, pathetic language ever. The most simple of things in ANY language (hell maybe even ASM) proves to be a #$%&ing pain in the ass in fortran. Fortran is like everything you hate about every freaking language on the planet (particularly blitz) crammed together.
My dad's college homework was simply to make a loop that kept asking for input until the user pushed enter without typing anything in and displayed an everage. I've worked for about an hour and a half, and I've given up.
Lemme tell you of some of the limits. 7 letter variables, apparently you can't add two variables, just a variable + a const.
Just every little thing.
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PRINT *, 'Look at me, I'm a fortran programmer!'
READ *, VARABLE
IF (VARABLE .EQ. "SOMETHING")
PRINT *, 'Holy crap! an IF statement worked'
ENDIF
The syntax is ugly, C/C++/Perl/JavaScript/PHP/VisualBasic/Java/Python/Anything else on the planet, EVEN BlitzPlus ownz it by a long shot. It is SO pointless. Why would you ever freaking do anything on fortran EVER? Those limits, it's monstrosity? I'd rather code everything in nothing but 100% ASM than that.
