Fortran: An ideal language for writing "Templates" of numerical algorithms (?)

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Indeed, what we are looking for is a lingua franca for numerical computation — a language that is simple, straightforward, and strict. Fortran was deemed in that way, but evolution is needed for it to continue to be regarded as such. See posts by @FortranFan under Fortran returns to top 20 TIOBE index, Eliminate implicit mapping, and Fortran and Neural Networks.