Fortran really suffers from the punched card malediction!
We could play a game:
- counting how many Fortran wikipedia pages in the world are showing punched cards!
- And how many are showing nowadays supercomputers? Or a modern scientific visualization of a big simulation?
See also my recent Wikipedia post:
Even the English Wikipedia page seems not so exciting for Fortran newcomers… Pictures are only about IBM 704, punched cards, Fortran 77 listing…
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