> The big advantage early FORTRAN had was baked in anti alias assumptions and a truckload of pre existing relatively accessible NIST | NASA grade quality numeri

> The big advantage early FORTRAN had was baked in anti alias assumptions and a truckload of pre existing relatively accessible NIST | NASA grade quality numerical algorithms that had been crawled over, eyeballed, tested, and pounded in simulations by many qualified applied scientists. Yeah. That Fortran library that has a solver for sparse complex matrices that won't produce nonsense if you give it a stiff problem, that has 50 years of people pounding on it to make sure that it's rock solid? I'm not sure that there's a C/C++ equivalent for it. I absolutely cannot write an equivalent. Yes, I can write a matrix solver that takes complex data. No, I can't write one that is as efficient, as numerically stable, or as bug-free as what already exists in Fortran.