Yep, let's hope IBM implements stuff like if-then-else, while, for, etc. structures in this "Fortran" - i.e. not simply a Fortran 1 (IMO worse than ASM). I'd hate to be stuck with conditional goto's. Otherwise someone will HAVE TO invent a Lisp for it, just so we can at least use some decent programming concepts.

irneb wrote: Actually on that score I must disagree. As far as I can tell most (if not all) programs are simply rehashing of stuff which was done several decades ago. That isn't true in comparison to civil engineering. Putting up the tallest building in the world requires new techniques. Putting up a 10 story office building doesn't. And 90% of programmers are not creating new word processors. The fact that a building requires nails, screws and elevators doesn't mean that all such buildings are equal. And a program like Excel and Word are not the same even if they both use a menu bar.