Hi, I work in computational physics. The main reason we all use Fortran in my area is because it allows arrays to have negative indices. This is very useful when solving some partial differential equations (in e.g. plasma physics, astrophysics, fluid mechanics).
I and my colleagues frequently consider alternative languages but in the end never change due to the headaches involved regarding this. Since Julia seems to be focused on computational science, I am wondering how likely it is that this would ever be implemented, and/or how we could encourage the developers to do this? In all other areas Julia looks fantastic for our needs!
