On 02/02/15 17:21, Tim Streater wrote:
And it was everywhere as a scientific language. All the library
packages were written in it. Certainly when I was at CERN (1968 to
1981) no physicist would have used anything else. But your criticisms
are entirely valid.


Indeed - and the fact as you say there were loads of libraries.

IIRC FORTRAN was faster at "maths" than C.