Modern language with the advantages of FORTRAN?

Question

I\'ve been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is:

• Simple to learn

Answer 1

I've worked recently with a lot of Matlab, and I can see it's benefits today. Yes is is slow because it is an interpreted language, but it's matrix algorithms are fast. And I like it exactly because of that behavior. The slowness of the for loops and the performance of the matrix operations encourage you to think in a more mathematical way instead of sticking to loop oriented programming. But I can agree that Matlab can be dismissed, because it is not open.

Currently I am looking forward to the Julia language. It is heavily inspired by Matlab except that it does want to be fast. Also it has static types which is also a very big advantage. But Julia is still very young, so do not expect that does already fulfill all your requirements.