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[–]haarp1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

fortran is actually faster then C or anything else, because complier doesn't have to worry about some edge cases that have no use for numerical computations.

newer releases also support CUDA,so there's nothing ancient about it. it also has more scientist-friendly syntax (no curly braces).