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Working for an astronomy company while in grad school was the first place I got to play with Fortran. It seems like Python is becoming the common language for
by jmspring 11y ago
Working for an astronomy company while in grad school was the first place I got to play with Fortran. It seems like Python is becoming the common language for researchers in a variety of fields -- ML, etc.
I still have the Fortran Coloring Book around somewhere.
- stargazer-3 11y agoAccording to a recent study on the current usage of programming languages in astronomy -http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989 http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989 - Fortran, quite popular in the old days, is still used by a quarter of scientists in the field. Python has been growing very fast in the last five years, eating away at the IDL share of astronomers.
- Pandabob 11y agoI'm starting my first Fortran (90/95) course tomorrow as part of my studies in astronomy. Having only used python and javascript before, I'm excited and terrified at the same time. The syntax just seems really different compared to those two languages.