C vs. FORTRAN

[Steven Ryan]

>  Rather than converting Fortran to C, or Cobol, or PL/1, it might be
>more worthwhile to look at some of the more flexible languages such
>as C++ or ADA or their future incarnations. Hopefully, the relearning
>cycle and upgrade path for these will be somewhat less steep after
>the initial conversion, as the basic compiler is less liable to change,
>but rather different packages of 'includes' will come along to provide
>extensions and new features.

That was the idea behind Algol68, from twenty years back. I think Aad
was a bit ahead of time.