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Could you please tell me what fortran is the good tool for ? :)

As much as I agree it's delusional to think one language may be adapted for virtually any kind of tasks, it seems way too much consensual to me to tell there is no such thing as bad or deprecated languages.




Fortan is great for FEM. Companies like Siemens are using millions of LOC of Fortran to virtually crash cars and explode bombs.

Also, Nastran got us to the moon (which is basically Fortran)




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