[colllectorof]

Engineers are horrified to learn that mathematical modeling is done in a language created in the 50s, but aren't bothered by the fact that the dominant computer interaction model used in the field right now dates back to pre-WW2 teleprinters. Someone is lacking in self- and historic awareness.

What practical problems does Fortran cause when used for numerical computing?

[enriquto]

Somebody should warn them about avoiding accidentally using Pythagoras theorem, that was introduced 2500 years ago.

[amelius]

Unlike computer software, mathematical theorems don't suffer from bit rot.

[pron]

Neither do languages, especially formal ones.

[IshKebab]

FORTRAN isn't a formal language though.

[pron]

Of course it is, just like all programming languages. If it weren't formal, a computer couldn't interpret it precisely. Formal means mechanical; a language whose calculus can be carried out by a machine.

[Trex_Egg]

Funny

[pron]

Or that the languages they use to express more important things that computer programs all date back much longer than that.