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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by dralley on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:58PM (#15480735)
>Give it a few more years and enough numpy-based libraries might make Python a real competitor.

A lot of Numpy is written in FORTRAN.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by dagw on Monday October 16, 2017 @08:09AM (#15482614)
Hardly any of numpy is written in Fortran. It's basically all C and Python. Numpy does however links to and provide wrappers around some existing Fortran libraries.
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