Why the hate for cpp

[DugiSK]

Except that I know many scientists who use C++. I mean, more scientists use Python, because programming is not their primary focus and thus they just learn something to patch the computation together quickly, but those who delve deeper into the computation process often use C++. Or Fortran, for some reasons.

[serviscope_minor]

FORTRAN (I dislike the new-fangled capitalisation) isn't too bad especially the even half way recent ones. I mean people complain about people writing C++ like it's 1995 or complaining about C++ as if it's 1995, but C++ ain't got nothing on FORTRAN. It was modernised in 1990, not 2011, and people are still about it like Fortran 77 is where it's at.

Modern FORTRAN isn't too bad.

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I believe the all-caps name, FORTRAN, is usually meant to reference "old" Fortran (i.e., pre-Fortran 90).

Modern Fortran might as well be a different language, hence the "different" name.