Think programmer hours are expensive? Go look at the price for Physics and Engineering PhD programming hours. Pretty much everything you would ever want to do

Think programmer hours are expensive? Go look at the price for Physics and Engineering PhD programming hours. Pretty much everything you would ever want to do related to partial differential equations or computational fluid dynamics has already been written in FORTRAN, and is damn good code. It helps the the language itself is more than capable of great perforamance and that NASA has poured massive amounts of cash into making sure it stays performant on newer hardware.