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by nickpsecurity 3303 days ago
Lots of optimized libraries used in scientific computing are done in Fortran with the language itself making some optimizations easier just because it's more conservative. All the HPC vendors selling supercomputers and such have Fortran on them. The language itself has been updated periodically, too. Add a legacy effect of people just using it for a long time and you get a language that isn't going away.