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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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