Yea. It's always funny when people say C is faster than Fortran for scientific computing. I mean, it's true, but only for a very limited amount of people who wa

Yea. It's always funny when people say C is faster than Fortran for scientific computing. I mean, it's true, but only for a very limited amount of people who want to do serious numeric work. C/C++ certainly aren't rare in this area, but Fortran is pleasant to work with for most numeric work and has lots of helpful built-ins and runs close to C in speed.