String parsing is a bit rough, but otherwise Fortran is much better than Matlab -- and Matlab was written in the 1990s to be "Fortran for the 90s". Numpy enable

String parsing is a bit rough, but otherwise Fortran is much better than Matlab -- and Matlab was written in the 1990s to be "Fortran for the 90s". Numpy enabled scientific computing folks to leave Matlab (and some, Fortran) to adopt Python. I took a coin flip in grad school to decide whether to focus on Python and Fortran. Python won the flip, but I've always loved Fortran generally.