Modern Fortran is a bliss, very high level comparable to MATLAB and Python, yet lightening fast, only a professional careful C programmer could get to its speed

Modern Fortran is a bliss, very high level comparable to MATLAB and Python, yet lightening fast, only a professional careful C programmer could get to its speed. Meanwhile, the only high-level programming language that provides a very simple native builtin syntax for one the most difficult types of distributed parallel computing. If you begin to learn Fortran, start from Fortran 2008 and beyond. Most major compilers support all of Fortran 2008 and and most of Fortran 2018, including Intel Fortran, NAG, GNU, Fujitsu, Cray, PGI, ...