[ams6110]

Fortran is not exactly a general purpose language though, it's specifically designed for the sorts of problems that scientific and HPC tends to deal with, and it's probably rare especially nowadays to see it used anywhere else. I'm guessing there aren't any web frameworks written in Fortran (though I'm sure someone will now point one out....)

[DeepDuh]

Web development with Fortran. Shudder. (String handling is abysmal in Fortran so I wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy).

No, but my parent was talking about deep code optimizations being almost exclusively being done in C. I'd say HPC is a significant market for code optimization, so I wanted to point out that Fortran is kind of the industry standard there.

[evoxed]

If I'm trapped on a desert island with (somehow) my MacBook and a solar charger, this will definitely be the first project I take one...

[wglb]

Well, it might surprise you to know that the first serious optimizing was written in fortran. In my book, compilers trump frameworks for generality.