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Are you saying that Fortran was once a general purpose programming language, but somehow changed to no longer be one?


Yes, because we are no longer in the 1960's - 1980's.

C and C++ took over many of the use cases people where using Fortran for during those decades.

In 2025, while it is a general purpose language, its use is constrained to scientific computing and HPC.

Most wannabe CUDA replacements keep forgetting Fortran is one of the reasons scientific community ignored OpenCL.


So you're saying that the changes made to Fortran have made it more specialized?




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