> I have not known a single person in over a decade to go out and specifically learn FORTRAN as a separate language. I much prefer c/cpp, but fortran remains p

> I have not known a single person in over a decade to go out and specifically learn FORTRAN as a separate language. I much prefer c/cpp, but fortran remains pervasive in scientific computing and being conversational in it remains a prerequisite for fields in high performance computing, IMO.