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Excellent. It's about time that something did. Well really, C++ is rapidly replacing Fortran for scientific computing, but it ain't all that much better for it
by hugh3 16y ago
Excellent. It's about time that something did.
Well really, C++ is rapidly replacing Fortran for scientific computing, but it ain't all that much better for it. I'm excited about the idea that this replaces MPI.
- p4bl0 16y agoPhysicists at my school/uni (in France) use Python with appropriate libs, but I don't know if it's the general case here, since I know physicists from near university use C++ (badly from what I saw, but that's an other story).
- hugh3 16y agoI'm a physicist, and I use Python (with scipy/numpy when appropriate) when I can get away with it (ie for small to medium-sized calculations). For big calculations, though, where what you can do is limited by performance, there's no getting away from C++ or Fortran. Python has a huge performance overhead (I have learned this the hard way).