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by TheRealKing 1780 days ago
Fortran is quite heavily used in computational science domain. Both the "old" (F66, F77, F90) and the new modern F2003, F2008, F2018. and Yes, (modern) Fortran feeds my family daily (along with many other computational tools and skills). Modern Fortran is a bliss. The parallel features of it are quite advanced comparable to advanced modern MPI capabilities, yet with an extremely intuitive and simple "Coarray" syntax. It is a fully vectorized, parallel shared and distributed, array-oriented, also Object-Oriented, language. It has influenced and shaped the syntax of MATLAB, Python, R, even C++ numerical libraries by its simple powerful high-level array-syntax.
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It's still heavily used in the chemical industry too
I also use Fortran daily but I see more and more people/organizations try to move out of it. What language they move to remains to be seen, however the recent efforts to modernise Fortran, create a standard library may yet breathe new life into it.