... when we used Teletype™-brand teletypes and sometimes had to wait several minutes for a command prompt if the squirrels were tired...
(... And our Baud rate was eight bits an hour, and our IP address was just 3)...
Er. Where was I? Oh, yes: there was a language called FORTRAN. The fancy-pants standard version, described in an IBM manual that made the rounds, was FORTRAN IV. That's a Roman number 4, folks; we didn't have language injections in those days.
Anyway, the language described on YouTube in a video entitled "FORTRAN in 100 Seconds" resembles it not in the least. Changing every aspect of the language and keeping the old name... well, that puts me in mind of "Well, we shaved off his big red beard, bleached his hair blond, swapped his iconic hammer for a boring industrial hammer, and made him female, but we're still calling her Thor."
Not having examined the current version of the language, I don't know if it's an atrocity like C++ or an abomination like Objective-C, but it's definitely grafting on layers of ideas that are a poor match for the base language.
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