Why Physicists Still Use Fortran

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, October 15, 2017 17:26:20 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 03:09:21PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> > http://moreisdifferent.com/2015/07/16/why-physicsts-still-use-fortran/
> >
> > Some good information there!
>
> 1-based array indexing...  I don't know, but I've become so accustomed
> to 0-based indexing that I doubt I'll ever be able to get used to a
> language with 1-based indexing.  Or whether D will ever be able to
> challenge Fortran in this respect. :P

For an algorithms class that I took in college, the book used 1-based
indexing for everything, and it drove me nuts. I guess that it was written
for mathematicians and not programmers.

- Jonathan M Davis