Scientific computing has the reputation, perhaps unfair, of being write-only programming. True?<p>In the 60+ years since Fortran was invented, enormous strides in computer languages have made source code more readable, and 99.9% of new programmers learn on only those languages.<p>If you ignore all that and continue to write Fortran, you've guaranteed that almost no one except other scientists will ever want to look at your code. And probably not even them.