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forgotpwd16
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mat...
>as legacy as Fortran is now
Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.
catchclose8919
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Compared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.
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Issue is most such codes are written in C and C++. Also anything else usually lacks native multidimensional arrays, element-wise array operations, and parallel programming facilities, let alone raw performance.
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Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.