In article <536c3049$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for > accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writing new > applications. There may be niches where that does not hold, where people > are actively writing new applications in Fortran, but they are niches. > Today, Fortran is rarely used for general purpose computing, updated > standards or no updated standards. Oddly enough, my current use of Fortran is via Python. The scipy and statsmodels libraries use Fortran routines under the covers. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list