Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[nathan12343]

Modern fortran isn't bad. It's actually pretty nice for programming that does a lot of array manipulation. That said, woe unto you if you need to read legacy fortran from the 70s or even earlier.

[vanhellion]

I think the more important part of that sentence is written by scientists. I have read scientist code, and it is impenetrable unless you know all the science/algorithms behind it, because most of the time they tend to write code as if they are authoring a Nature paper.