Thats why we still use it at my work (CFD). Its easier to produce fast matrix/linear algebra code than C++ for a scientist who is not a Software Engineer.
This has been my experience. Although I know other languages, when I go to write a solver for CFD, radiation transport, heat transfer, etc I normally have gone with OpenMPI and Fortran. For me, Fortran is almost like writing psuedocode.
