# What is the advantage of Julia over Fortran?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** fortran\
**Created:** [August 6, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-advantage-of-julia-over-fortran/65964 "2021-08-06T21:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-advantage-of-julia-over-fortran/65964/102 "2021-08-10T22:28:14Z")

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I’m going to ~~steal~~ use this awesome example crediting you in my next talk about julia

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