>In Fortran 90, user-defined procedures can be placed in generic interface blocks. This allows the procedures to be referenced using the generic name of the block.
I don't know Fortran, but I'm fairly sure that you just googled "fortran generics" and pasted the first result without checking it :)
Fair enough, I didn't know about that feature. However, people were using Fortran successfully for writing huge numeric libraries waaaaayyy before that.
