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		pjmlp on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 2 Draft Designs 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

foldr on Aug 29, 2018 [–]

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

pjmlp on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

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

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