Comment on What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?Comments−sehugg13yThis SO answer has interesting comments on Fortan performance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021And this appropriately grumpy rebuttal from a JPL guy to the 2004 "Petition to Retire Fortran" makes some good arguments for not retiring it (and also gives some Ada love): http://www.fortranstatement.com/Site/responses.html
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This SO answer has interesting comments on Fortan performance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021
And this appropriately grumpy rebuttal from a JPL guy to the 2004 "Petition to Retire Fortran" makes some good arguments for not retiring it (and also gives some Ada love): http://www.fortranstatement.com/Site/responses.html