Why people dislike global variables so much while I find them so convenient?

[rempas]

On Wednesday, 26 January 2022 at 14:44:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> The numbers behind the name are roughly the year of the 
> standard. FORTRAN 66 and FORTRAN 77 used all caps. Fortran 90 
> and later dropped the all caps thing.
>
> Modern Fortran isn't bad if you're working in the domain for 
> which it was written. I wouldn't hesitate to take it over C, 
> C++, or Rust for that type of work.

That's cool! What was it written for?