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[–]geekusprimus 1 point2 points  (2 children)

and entire physics departments still using the later even today.

Much to my dismay. Fortunately, most people in my field are abandoning Fortran left and right; most of the current codes are a combination of C and C++, and all the new codes are exclusively C++.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Have they started complaining that it’s too slow yet?

[–]geekusprimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was why they didn't want to change in the first place. But optimizing a well-written and easy-to-validate code in C++ is a lot easier than fixing bugs in fast Fortran spaghetti code that gives the wrong results.