This SO answer has interesting comments on Fortan performance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021 http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021 And this appropriately g

This SO answer has interesting comments on Fortan performance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021 http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021 And this appropriately grumpy rebuttal from a JPL guy to the 2004 "Petition to Retire Fortran" makes some good arguments for not retiring it (and also gives some Ada love): http://www.fortranstatement.com/Site/responses.html http://www.fortranstatement.com/Site/responses.html