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Really well. Dev work is way more fun than science! If you want some advice then:

- Take some time to learn some CS fundamentals.

- Make sure you know a language that someone that might employ you knows (just so they have a point of reference).

- Write some toy applications in the field you want to move to.

Fortran has not been capitalized since the F90 standard came out...

Fortran arrays can be indexed however you like. Code that is designed to be called from C can be written with 0 indexed arrays.

Fortran hasn't been all caps for nearly 30 years now...

It is very easy for a physical scientist to write Fortran that performs well - the syntax looks very similar to the maths that is being modeled. It is a lot harder for a scientist to write tight C code.

1. A program from 30 years ago will compile and run.

2. As a research student your first program is likely to be a F77 program written by your professor or an older colleague.

3. A library from 30 years ago can be easily wrapped into a modern program, compiled and run.

4. Arrays are really the most important thing for this sort of programming and since F90 array level operations have been baked into the language.

5. It is fairly trivial to write fast Fortran.

6. Fortran is much easier to use for numerical stuff than c++

The one week experiment ended early. Politics has been allowed again for longer than the experiment ended - I think we are supposed to remain civil though.