Agree. This is one of the reasons that Fortran remains popular for scientific computing: * dead-simple array/vector operations (http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~ch

Agree. This is one of the reasons that Fortran remains popular for scientific computing: * dead-simple array/vector operations (http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/561/Syllabus/6-Fortran/array.html http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/561/Syllabus/6-F...) * many useful built-ins (e.g., DOT_PRODUCT, MAXVAL/MAXLOC, MATMUL, TRANSPOSE) * standard math libraries (e.g., LAPACK) with lots of very fast functions for linear algebra