1) What makes a language like Fortran so intimidating?
I know it's the butt of many jokes (together with Cobol and Assembly - especially in the context "really hard to learn/use languages) but just scrolling through the github repo (frontpage), the code doesn't seem that intimidating (or any less confusing than Go would seem for someone unfamiliar with its nuances).
2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C?
C is the go-to for any low-level performance, but in terms of computation, Fortran seems to do better (or so we're told). Is/Was Fortran a better-designed language, that allowed it to perform better than C at computation?
I know it's the butt of many jokes (together with Cobol and Assembly - especially in the context "really hard to learn/use languages) but just scrolling through the github repo (frontpage), the code doesn't seem that intimidating (or any less confusing than Go would seem for someone unfamiliar with its nuances).
2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C?
C is the go-to for any low-level performance, but in terms of computation, Fortran seems to do better (or so we're told). Is/Was Fortran a better-designed language, that allowed it to perform better than C at computation?