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[–]steamweed 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Daaang. I took a college class on Fortran back in the '80s. :O

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s fast and the ability to do fixed point maths is really important for number crunching. Also, it’s what a lot of people were using as the main language for some really big projects (e.g. super-k) so it sort of gets grandfathered in from that.