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by ScotterC 4787 days ago
I used to script FORTRAN back when I was in nuclear engineering. I didn't know of Fortran's particular advantages other then that the software we used was built in FORTRAN and all our scripts to date that we used were built in FORTRAN and the general attitude in the uber-safe world of nuclear engineering is if it works, and works well, why in god's name would you mess with it :)