[GeompMankle]

Negative. Fortran is in a better position to guarantee certain facts about sequential access in arrays and solid information about pointer aliasing that is generally not available in C or C++ unless the author of the C/C++ is extremely aware for compiler quirks and pragma. Fortran has a "just works" attitude to high speed array processing where as other languages are focused on edge cases that are good for PhD thesis on general computing optimization but rarely work in the easiest case without extensive pragmas.

See also CUDA. Sure you can write a C to CUDA converter auto-vectorizer but its likely to have all sorts of bugs and usually never work right except in rare hand-tune cases. May as well just write CUDA from scratch if it is to be performant. Same for array processing, wanna array process? Use compiler for array processing like Fortran or ISPC.