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- Fortran is specialized for high-performance computing and remains relevant due to its performance-centric culture.
- It is easier to use than C/C++ for scientific computing, with native support for multidimensional arrays and complex numbers.
- Fortran guarantees code longevity and backward compatibility, allowing decades-old code to still compile and run.
- Coarrays introduced in Fortran 2008 provide intrinsic distributed-memory parallelism, simplifying parallel code development.