C vs Fortran

C is a general-purpose, procedural programming language originally developed at Bell Labs that has influenced virtually all modern programming languages. It provides low-level memory access, minimal runtime overhead, and is widely used for operating systems, embedded systems, and performance-critical applications.

Fortran is a languages tool that one of the oldest programming languages, still actively used in high-performance scientific computing, numerical simulation, and weather modeling. It is open source software.