A Fortran Web Framework
1) What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?<p>I know it's the butt of many jokes (together with Cobol and Assembly - especially in the context "really hard to learn/use languages) but just scrolling through the github repo (frontpage), the code doesn't seem <i>that</i> intimidating (or any less confusing than Go would seem for someone unfamiliar with its nuances).<p>2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C?<p>C is the go-to for any low-level performance, but in terms of computation, Fortran seems to do better (or so we're told). Is/Was Fortran a better-designed language, that allowed it to perform better than C at computation?