>it's rather in the category of Perl or Fortran: languages that happened to be useful to scientists by happenstance From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

>it's rather in the category of Perl or Fortran: languages that happened to be useful to scientists by happenstance From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran : "Fortran was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications"