Because some of the best math libraries are written in Fortran. Seriously lots o...

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Because some of the best math libraries are written in Fortran. Seriously lots of heavy duty scientific code was written in Fortran in the 1970s and is still underpinning applications today. In many cases there is no equivalent alternative.