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Re:Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video] by fulafel on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:06AM (#22282146)
It's used in science (physics, chemistry, astronomy etc). Just like C++ is used not because it's a nice language but because of inertia and path dependecy, the same goes for fortran.
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Re:Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video] by gnufx on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:51AM (#22282642)
But it is a nice enough language, at least in its sphere: "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in FORTRAN [sic] 90." -- Tony Hoare
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