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IMO, it's more than not awful, it's great! I wish I had picked it up sooner as a mid-level language for mathematical and scientific computing (over C++). Additi
by chestervonwinch 10y ago
IMO, it's more than not awful, it's great! I wish I had picked it up sooner as a mid-level language for mathematical and scientific computing (over C++). Additionally, you can connect Fortran to Python dead simple with `f2py`.
- hprotagonist 10y agoIt's too bad some people don't know about it and just copy/paste blindly. It took me about a week to find out that the author of a model i worked on didn't know about `from copy import copy`, which explains a great deal about why their ODE solver wasn't working.
- m_mueller 10y agoIMO the ongoing trend of moving everything academic to C++ is just awful. I still don't get why everything thinks a language-to-rule-them-all is what should be used by default, especially in the age of LLVM. IMO Alan Kay and his research group has always had exactly the right ideas in this regard. I think iPython/Jupyter + Numpy + some kind of JITed Fortran 2008 environment with accelerator support would be a nearly ideal scientific computing environment. Basically a free, open source and blazingly fast (HPC ready) version of Matlab.
- hprotagonist 10y agothis is how my field is going. (biomedical/neurosci). Of course, since numpy is effectively a nice shell on top of linpack, my original assertion still holds.