I know you are joking.... ...however discussion on Fortan is inevitably dominated by those who once saw some F77 code years back and associate Fortran with pun

I know you are joking.... ...however discussion on Fortan is inevitably dominated by those who once saw some F77 code years back and associate Fortran with punch cards. Fortran 90 was a big update of the language, and modern Fortran versions and compilers are very good indeed. Not to mention they can be used with the old tried and tested libraries which are bombproof. There is a reason Fotran is still used. It's simple, and you can *really* trust it.