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I'm glad someone picked up on it! I've definitely picked "FP is the truth for astrophysics programming" as my hill to die on, but the issue with Haskell is it's
by whorleater 10y ago
I'm glad someone picked up on it! I've definitely picked "FP is the truth for astrophysics programming" as my hill to die on, but the issue with Haskell is it's combination of vernacular and tools that make it hard to approach for the novice scientific programmer. Almost all dedicated astrophysics programmers wind up using Fortran90, which is sorta the de facto due to it's imperative nature.
- Mikeb85 10y agoModern Fortran is pretty awesome though; it has pure functions, it's fast, scales well, is easy to read and understand. Probably much more suited to most scientific fields than Haskell.