Fortran is still a thing (2017)
I&#x27;m writing this comment while compiling OpenMP Fortran code that models photoresist behavior in chip lithography.<p>Could&#x27;ve written the same in C++, but for things like that, Fortran is more natural (its math syntax is Matlab-ish, although, of course, it&#x27;s more correct to say that Matlab&#x27;s syntax is Fortran-ish).<p>Anecdote: I&#x27;m starting to learn Rust, and just for fun, wrote a dumb single-loop Riemann sum to compute pi in Rust and Fortran (as the area of the circle) - and Fortran code ran 2x faster. When the computation time is measured in <i>days</i>, this kind of difference matters.