Because FORTRAN sucks (ok, that's pushing it.. haha). It's like Latin, some people call it dead. But the truth is, only a few people use the language. It's mostly used for purely mathematical computations.
"Numbers are not part of the real world; they're part of something else."
-Prof. Rolly Panopio, UPLB Math Division
-Prof. Rolly Panopio, UPLB Math Division