What is the most underestimated programming language?

[AstonJ]

@iPaul

Another language that is underestimated is Fortran (I mean modern Fortran 2003 and up). Despite its age Fortran is really powerful language and if used well quite modern - it has modules, pure functions, interfaces, OOP, operator overloading, direct interoperability with C, native multidimensional array operations (like Matlab or NumPy). Also speed, for numerical calculations nothing beats Fortran.

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