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I've seen this in mathematical programming too. The most successful projects use old Fortran libraries: LAPACK, FFTPACK, etc. Python (SciPy) is popular, and gre
by peripetylabs 14y ago
I've seen this in mathematical programming too. The most successful projects use old Fortran libraries: LAPACK, FFTPACK, etc. Python (SciPy) is popular, and great for prototyping, but I still write everything in C because although floating point is flawed, it's flawed in well-understood ways.