We have to train new staff in how to do C++ programming now. Fortran is much easier to explain than C++. As soon as people go from toy problems to big compute t

We have to train new staff in how to do C++ programming now. Fortran is much easier to explain than C++. As soon as people go from toy problems to big compute they will face the same problems that led to solutions like Fortran. What we might see is Fortran being generated from higher level specifications, particularly distributed parallel computations using task specific processors.