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Because you don't have to learn yet another set of functions in a language that makes it stupidly easy to blow off your own feet, and yet still have all the advantages of those systems in a language that is actually _designed_ for calculating formulas (hence the name FORTRAN, i.e. FORmula TRANslation).

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Again, should your users understand the code you present or should you use the language you feel more comfortable with. Reading FORTRAN formulas is a pain (just reading for example a Prime factorization function implemented in parallel written in Fortran takes 10-15min to understand). Hence, I see a large advantage of OPEN_MP & C++ here.

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