I recently selected Fortran for a greenfield project. The reasons were primarily (1) speed, (2) clean mathematical syntax, especially for elemental multi-dimens

I recently selected Fortran for a greenfield project. The reasons were primarily (1) speed, (2) clean mathematical syntax, especially for elemental multi-dimensional array math, (3) clean array slicing syntax, and (4) arbitrary array indices[0] result in cleaner code for my use cases. People normally think of Fortran as being inscrutable spaghetti code, but for me using Fortran results in the cleanest, fastest code. [0] Fortran arrays are 1-indexed by default, but can technically use any integer, including 0, or negative numbers. It's trivial to have, say, an array indexed from -7 to +7: real :: array(-7:7)