In my opinion, Fortran is pretty good in the metrics of (1) easy, (2) safe, and (3) faster or as fast as C. Pretty much the perfect tool for those (poorly) self

In my opinion, Fortran is pretty good in the metrics of (1) easy, (2) safe, and (3) faster or as fast as C. Pretty much the perfect tool for those (poorly) self-taught coders to be productive and produce performant numerical code, without spending much time on learning the language.