Fair enough. The language has quite a bit of bagage and some habits are hard to break. That said, it is not unpleasant to use for numerical codes, when you’re

Fair enough. The language has quite a bit of bagage and some habits are hard to break. That said, it is not unpleasant to use for numerical codes, when you’re not working with people stuck in 1977 (so, no common blocks, everything in modules, decent array syntax, etc). It fits its niche quite well, with Python for everything else.