King among parallel processors (Score 1)

You use the right tool for the right job. You don't use a table saw to slice a pizza. In the same way you won't use Fortran in Web design, you will NEVER use Java for massive computational tasks. I'm in the field of physics and astronomy and I'm as old as Fortran 77 itself. It is still being used today, specifically if you have a million point model of a galaxy that you are going to run one simple calculation on over and over again. If you have a dual processor machine, or a massively parallel machine, Fortran is optimized for such tasks and such hardware. Also, I find it necessary to know Fortran and C/C++ and IDL, so I can utilize old, yet optimized Fortran code of my professors' with new "fancier" code I write today.