Modern computer languages SUCK when it comes to performance and when it comes to mathematical descriptions of physical processes such as the atmosphere. Trying to force scientists and engineers who model physical systems to think functionally is just wrong. That is not how they think. They think procedurally. FORTRAN was written for the scientific community and has evolved with continual oversight by the scientific community because it works well with the way they think. ...
I agree with this. Learning new languages only because they were added was a great pain in the neck for me. Fortran was my first language. At some time someone convinced me that I must learn Pascal, because "that is what your students are required to learn now," they said. By the time I mastered Pascal students were required to learn C.
I am Ludwik Kowalski, a retired nuclear physicist (see Wikipedia). My on-line autobiography, entitled "Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality," is based on a diary I kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France and the USA). Google will provide the link, in case someone is interested in how a devoted Stalinist became an active anti-communist.
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I agree with this. Learning new languages only because they were added was a great pain in the neck for me. Fortran was my first language. At some time someone convinced me that I must learn Pascal, because "that is what your students are required to learn now," they said. By the time I mastered Pascal students were required to learn C.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)