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[maitreya]

This is OT already, but Fortram is pretty ok to use for calculations (read: strictly mathematical stuff). But aside from calculating things, I don't what else it can be used for. It's usually used for only specific topic/subjects. Another problem of it is that it lacks many functions; you'd have to make your own functions from stratch. It doesn't even have a random number generator (though I heard it could be programmed). Excel could probably do better in general, but like I said, depending on what has to gotten, Fortran can be better/worse.