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

Simple to learn (no object-oriented or functional-programming complications)

Easy to read

Blazing fast at number-crunching

Sounds like C.

Buy Numerical Recipes in C. That pretty much covers all the bases in a clear, readable style.

http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Recipes-Art-Scientific-Computing/dp/0521431085