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It depends on what you mean by "scientific computing". I can't imagine doing scientific computing in the sense I do (using computing to analyze scientific data)
by jhbadger 3y ago
It depends on what you mean by "scientific computing". I can't imagine doing scientific computing in the sense I do (using computing to analyze scientific data) without strings, lists, dictionaries, and (not that you mentioned them) data frames, which means R and Python are far better tools for doing my kind of scientific computing (yes, I know that R, and maybe Python, use libraries like BLAS underneath and those were written in Fortran).
- manx 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_science
- jhbadger 3y agoOkay, but this mentions exactly my own field of computational biology. I don't think many computational biologists are using Fortran (except indirectly through libraries like BLAS) in the 21st century.