I went into this thinking: C is basically cleaned up FORTRAN, right? I know C? This should be easy, right? Right off the bat I find there will be a lot of difficulties entirely not of the kind I'm used to in programming. After a brief adventure with accidentally naming my file .f and not .f90 causing horrific and baffling errors, I run a hello world off the Internet. There's a space before the printout. Hm, how do I turn that off?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/31236043

Oh my fuck, *what*?

I get frustrated with C all the time for being fundamentally a 70s language. It may be I'm about to learn the pain of using a *50s language*.

(Alternately, I hear modern FORTRAN has all kinds of fancy niceties like operator overloading and might not resemble traditional FORTRAN all that much. But then I have the problem if I pick up a random tutorial it's hard to guess which *decade's* standard it's teaching me from, or if it's the GNU extension, if the GNU extension is that different, etc.)

Just learned FORTRAN has an aint() function

Don't that just beat all

@foone pretty sure no

I assume that the "y'all" keyword would be a standin for every variable in scope. So you say

y'all += 4

and it adds 4 to all variables.

It might be possible to implement this in userspace in Python.

@whitequark @mcc @foone
Nice!

That hard-coded `int` type is bugging me, though

For one thing, `yall += 4` should also increment float, Decimal and Fraction variables, as well as third-party types like NumPy arrays and ORM proxy objects

There's also no reason to disallow `yall += "!"` or `yall += [4]`

I don't know how to design it better, though. Maybe increment all variables regardless of type, possibly excluding `self`? Not sure