Modern language with the advantages of FORTRAN?

Question

I\'ve been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is:

• Simple to learn

Answer 1

@S.Lott: Cannot imagine Fortran users such as scientists, having to switch over and dump all their Fortran work..... :S The OP is looking for input on what's new...

To the OP: Have you read up on Wikipedia which details the changes made to Fortran, for 2003 version, allows interoperability with C, so maybe S.Lott does have a point, perhaps, bit by bit, gently port some stuff over or write a wrapper in C to call the Fortran modules? I'll quote from that Wikipedia page...

Interoperability with the C programming language.