My reason for using fortran (when I was studying physics) was that when going through the university library looking for a computational physics textbook, I cou

My reason for using fortran (when I was studying physics) was that when going through the university library looking for a computational physics textbook, I couldn't find one that wasn't in fortran—actually I found one (computational physics, Giordano & Nakanishi) but it wasn't enough to get by. Fortunately I already knew fortran, because all the legacy textbooks+journals were written in the language.