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Fortran is still used in Physics. They have a lot of libraries, and they usually have a some program of a previous paper that almost do what they want now, and they know the technology stack, so many physicist are still not planning to change.

(I work with a Physics group. Sometimes I found programs with an old part that still use numbered lines for the "do". We are still trying to get rid of numbered lines ...)



I work for a company working with hydrodynamics (Potential Flow) and all of our main hydro code is written in Fortran and we don;t plan on moving away from it. Its too easy for non-software oriented engineers to write performant code in with a low barrier to entry.


Not to mention that Fortran has come a long ways from your father's (or my) Fortran IV.


RatFor for the win... :)... :(


Particle physicists began to move on to C++: Pythia, GEANT4, root.

EDIT: Also, lattice QCD people are using C++ nowdays (frankly, I haven't seen them using anything else).




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