Re: Choice of programming language


"Damien" <damien.hocking@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's still mostly Fortran, with some C/C++. New codes are likely to be
Fortran 90/95 rather than Fortran 77. What's likely is that the
numerical part is Fortran and the simulation or modeling framework that
poses the problem is C++. Nobody does serious numerical computation in
Java. It sucks for that, it's too slow.

yep agreed on that - i'm writing some linear algebra applications in java at
the moment and they dont exactly rocket along. im only using java because
it has a arbitrary precision arithmetic feature which few other languages
have built in.

with regards to the OPs question, undoubtedly fortran

Damien



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