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Because Fortran is FORmula TRANslator and it is very easy to express complex equations with it. It the lingua franca of scientific computing.

• neolog 6y ago
  TIL. I'm curious what Fortran buys you over, say, Julia.
  • Loic 6y ago
    We simply master Fortran because of all the number crunching we are doing, nothing more.