[kbenson]

> I do wonder, where is Fortran used these days?

Not that I actually know, but what I hear is that it's still used for number crunching, and it's actually faster than C in some respects unless you make heavy use of C99 features. That is, very generally it doesn't support a few features of C that makes it easier to optimize some constructs, nut that C now has keywords which can signal the compiler appropriately so the same optimizations can now happen in C.[1]

I just looked that up from memory of prior discussions here though, so if someone with real experience chimes in, take them over me.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-easier...