Apart from string processing and a few other warts, Fortran is surprisingly similar to working with Numpy - avoiding explicit loops and doing operations on arra

Apart from string processing and a few other warts, Fortran is surprisingly similar to working with Numpy - avoiding explicit loops and doing operations on arrays, slicing notation, etc. It can make a lot of computational code really easy to write and easy to read, thus easy to understand and get right. Which makes sense when you recall ForTran = Formula Translator. It's literally designed as language where you should be able to write code that's one-to-one with your equations.