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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by foldr on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:08PM (#17863376)
>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 :)

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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by pjmlp on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:14AM (#17866322)
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

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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by foldr on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:11AM (#17867069)
Fair enough, I didn't know about that feature. However, people were using Fortran successfully for writing huge numeric libraries waaaaayyy before that.
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Re:Go 2 Draft Designs by pjmlp on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:45AM (#17867190)
I was successfully using Z80, 68000 and 80x86 Assembly 30+ years ago as well.
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