In article <[email protected]>,
 Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> 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.
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