>The first 2 points are really bad arguments in my opinion, it's easy to see by imagining people saying this at the peak year of Fortran: "there's a ton of exis

>The first 2 points are really bad arguments in my opinion, it's easy to see by imagining people saying this at the peak year of Fortran: "there's a ton of existing Fortran programs, other have tried to replace Fortran and failed" And they'd be right: At work, even our Android app written this year contains a huge amount of Fortran via scientific libraries.