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I work with reservoir modelling, and it continues to amaze me that everyone coming from non-CS fields seem to have programmed solely in Fortran. Besides, I believe the Intel Fortran compiler is extremely fast. I wouldn't say there's no reason to write new programs in Fortran.

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I find it's much easier to write code that uses multidimensional arrays in Fortan than almost any other language.

Sure, i/o isn't as nice and don't try to do anything fancy with strings, but for numbers it's hard to beat.

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