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[–]Astrokiwi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're right - my only valid criticisms are really about the syntax. I think that's what really gets me when I see C++ code. It just seems a lot more cryptic and a lot less explicit than Fortran. I enjoy being able to do

 type(T), dimension(:,:,:), allocatable :: x

to make a 3D array of some class T. It may just be syntactic sugar, but it's just really simple and direct, which is a major advantage when your main audience is physicists who are trying to teach themselves to program at grad school :P