> why fortran?

why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but that's not a big deal with today's tooling.

▲

FormerLabFred 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fortran will survive the cockroaches even, when the world 404s

▲

pklausler 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your code will work unchanged until you try to change compilers or your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language.

	▲	kergonath 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language Like all the 3 of them they added in the last 30 years, and that compiler vendors are not enforcing anyway because they don’t want to annoy their users? Windows’ backward compatibility is a joke compared to Fortran.