modern-languages

问题 Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 3 years ago . I speak and write English (and to be honest no other language), and I noticed that most coding languages like Python, Java, and JavaScript use mostly English words. For example: print("Hello World") 'Print' is an English word in the dictionary and kinda makes sense for someone who has not coded before (i.e. to

问题 I've been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is: Simple to learn (no object-oriented or functional-programming complications) Easy to read Blazing fast at number-crunching Those qualities are naturally attractive to non-programmer engineers and scientists who just want a way to make a computer give answers quickly. But it has a lot of limitations based on its age and some of its basic assumptions.