>>11894568>Actual retard. A very solid majority of computational condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry software is Fortran basedSure, doesn't mean it's used widely though. Fortran and C/C++ are binary compatible btw. Plus, you're completely missing the point. We're not talking about using software here. We're talking about programming. I never met a single physicist who programmed in Fortran, and I've met them all. From quantum chemists (materionomics, MIT), CERN folk (b factory, LHC), condensed matter physics (my background), HEP (SLAC, Tevatron, Fermilab), foundational quantum guys (suprasolids, abusing decoherence for tomography, one guy who used to work for Zeilinger), and soft matter dudes (mostly from German Max Planck institute, motor cell simulations, swimmers, protein folding, etc).
>The actual advantages C++ has compared to Fortran aren't even mentioned and are mostly irrelevant in scientific calculations anyway.They are mentioned explicitly at least in my Alma Mater courses. Every single scientific programming course I've seen is either for C++ or both C++ and Fortran.
The only people I've seen directly working with Fortran are civil engineers (FORTRAN77, imagine that!), mechanical engineers (although they're also moving away from it) and some aerospace engineers. And people trapped in legacy hell of nuclear power plants and factories of similar caliber.
