Language change and code breaks

[Michael Abbott]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote in
news:cp7kwyqfce.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com: 

> 
> How did engineers cope with Fortran?  Fortran has long been the
> preferred language for engineers, after C.S. folks moved on to C and
> C++...

Fortran was utterly miserable.  With only six letters per identifier (and 
upper case only), you ended up with incomprehensible sequences of letters 
and numbers (typically a library prefix together with a subroutine 
identification number).

I expect the language has moved on by now, though!