Age is a pretty good argument actually for computer languages IMO. More abstraction is better, and this usually comes with time and progress. Otherwise we woul

Age is a pretty good argument actually for computer languages IMO. More abstraction is better, and this usually comes with time and progress. Otherwise we would still be using Assembly, which incidentally should be faster than Fortran since most people here seem to focus on speed of execution. Python is more abstract, ie higher level and this makes it more suitable for scientific tasks than Fortran for the vast majority of problems. As I said earlier not all scientists are doing heavy simulations on a daily basis. And for scientists the goal is their science not the coding.