>In Fortran 90, user-defined procedures can be placed in generic interface blocks. This allows the procedures to be referenced using the generic name of the block.

I don't know Fortran, but I'm fairly sure that you just googled "fortran generics" and pasted the first result without checking it :)

Fortran got simplified generics in 2003, I pasted the wrong link by mistake.

https://cug.org/5-publications/proceedings_attendee_lists/20...

https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/692037

Fair enough, I didn't know about that feature. However, people were using Fortran successfully for writing huge numeric libraries waaaaayyy before that.

I was successfully using Z80, 68000 and 80x86 Assembly 30+ years ago as well.