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I imagine any kind of number crunching would be done in a different language or use optimized libraries. I wonder how many numerical apps are moving from Fortra
by zwieback 15y ago
I imagine any kind of number crunching would be done in a different language or use optimized libraries. I wonder how many numerical apps are moving from Fortran to modern C++, e.g. using templates for optimized number crunching.
- tmarthal 15y agoI think that a lot of 'number crunching' scientific programs that evolved in the 1990's were written in Matlab. Most of them in the 1980's and earlier where in FORTRAN77. Where the comparison to python really gets interesting is the addition of the REPL, the (now mature) NumPy/SciPy libraries, tkinter (python Tk libraries), and a bunch of other common things that are causing many established scientists and engineers to ditch their Matlab licenses and move towards python. This is more geared at the analyst level, which you could compare astronomers to, rather than the scientific programmer level (who have been writing C or C++ in the 1990s/2000s instead of Matlab). Python makes things neat because the same libraries (mentioned in the article) that the scientific programmers are using can now be used directly by the analysts/astronomers.