Well, the last Fortran I know would be 90, so I guess I'm not really up to date.

Mother nature doesn't exist, and if she does, she made us the way we are, so please stop conjuring her every time you want to feel bad about yourself being human. If we want to survive as a species we have our own challenge, but feeling wrong about what we are won't make anything happen, exept maybe mass extinction. (ironic isn't it?)

More to the point, Red Hats makes money with their business plan and it's good for every one. They very well know their are free alternatives OSes. They even have one themself! So nobody should feel bad for not supporting them. It's nice but it's a matter of conviction. If anything, the only thing you need to worry about is that the lake of support service will come back and shoot you in the foot later. But hey! You had the choice!

Copy/Paste is always Error prone, and you very well should reindent it anyway.

A good programmer won't pester all days about forced indentation or brace, yadda yadda yadda... A good programmer have seen enough unspeackable horror code to know this issue isn't really one. Not to say there isn't agruments for either way, but it's really a church battle.

The way I see it, a language that force every one to carefully indent the same way have a good point. If you can't adapt to that, you won't adapt to anything.

a(b + c) can't be a multiplication. At least in C. you'll need to write a*(b+c).

I agree the two can be easy to confuse. But there is no syntaxic ambiguity.