fortran again

How can I read a single character in fortran? How about a whole line? Why is this piece of shit language still used to teach courses in universities? (bad universities, surely).

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You may in fact do have the knowledge to decide. A general guideline for those fucking pissers that have no clue would be OK I guess. The rest could take a fucking break from reading FORTRAN manuals and code in something better.

In practice, you won't code in fortran, so your other argument is invalid.

You don't seem to understand; my beef is not with PHP, Java or whatever shitty language you're thinking of; My beef is specifically with fortran.