[fpc-devel] Russian locale informationnotcompatible withFPClocalevariables

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 31 Jul 2008, schreef "Vinzent Höfler":

>> Op Thu, 31 Jul 2008, schreef Boian Mitov:
>>
>>> Stupid me, to 20 years ago when I studied Fortran 77, I thought it was
>>> obsolete :-)
>>> I hope they at least have loops now, and who knows, it may even support
>>> Hmm.... Hmm... recursion :-D .
>>
>> No, Fortran is still in big use, and yes it is obsolete. However, it has
>> some features people like, like local arrays that are dimensioned at
>> procedure call time.
>
> Ada and C99 have that. Scripting languages anyway... I think the main feature of Fortran is the heavily optimzing compiler. ;)

With C you have exactly the same compiler. True, it is a reason against 
Pascal, but does not explain the popularity of Fortran.

Daniël