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<p>One misunderstanding people have about Fortran is that they
always want to compare it to C. C is more of a 'general purpose'
language that was originally designed for low-level programming
tasks, like programming operating systems without using assembly.
On the other hand, Fortran is a domain-specific language meant for
one specific purpose: numerical programming. <br>
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<p>Comparing these two languages to each other is like comparing an
SUV to a Ferrari. The have completely different design goals, so
have completely different strengths and weaknesses. Once you
explain that to someone who says "OMG! You know people who still
use Fortran", they usually get it. <br>
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<p>It's still the case the for intense numerical analysis Fortran
is best even though the gap between it and C has diminished.
Being a computational astrophysicist by training I can speak
from experience that Fortran is superior to C for doing serious
numerical work at scale. What Fortran does well it does very
well, and it still does very well.</p>
<p>Once C has native arrays and orders them properly, then we can
talk :).</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe I'm being too serious but in the old days,
Fortran was the most mature, maintained compiler and the
libraries were great, then later, C had better compilers but
the libraries were still great. Now, I think the only good
thing about Fortran is that it's pretty easy to learn?
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<div dir="ltr">I agree 100% . You can't beat bash and
fortran.</div>
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is and remains an awesome language. More people should
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