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I shrugged, dismissively, when the Reason #programming language was announced as the new syntactic veneer atop OCaml. OCaml in C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax—why?

But I, too, had been ensnared by that same comfortable vice grip of "apparent innovation". On many occasions, I had dreamt of new, modernised syntax for Fortran, C, Standard ML, Scheme, and the like. In my dreams, that so-called "new" syntax inexplicably resembles the "old" syntax of Hope/Miranda/Haskell/Agda.

#Programmers....

https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/PL/FortranModernisation/