Yup, mostly because they are the same libraries that R uses. I really feel like I may need to learn Fortran at some point, given its ridiculously good numerical capabilities.
I actually think that LAPACK will outlive us all, as I can't see anyone ever rewriting (and re-testing) the software that essentially runs science (and a large proportion of "Big Data" approaches).
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A lot of NumPy/SciPy (Python's scientific computation libraries) are written in Fortran too: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html
Yup, mostly because they are the same libraries that R uses. I really feel like I may need to learn Fortran at some point, given its ridiculously good numerical capabilities.
Even matlab uses those libraries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK )
I actually think that LAPACK will outlive us all, as I can't see anyone ever rewriting (and re-testing) the software that essentially runs science (and a large proportion of "Big Data" approaches).
And, also Octave