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by ivanpribec 894 days ago
Bjarne Stroustrup on Fortran users [1]:

> Fortran is harder to compete with. It has a dedicated following who [...] care little for programming languages or the finer points of computer science. They simply want to get their work done.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4263269