Re: Beginner, Which language

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: 12 Oct 2004 10:18:49 -0700

gswork@mailcity.com (gswork) wrote in message news:<81f33a98.0410112329.438c09a4@posting.google.com>...
> mwojcik@newsguy.com (Michael Wojcik) wrote in message news:<ckejv60105p@news3.newsguy.com>...
> > In article <81f33a98.0410080341.5979a7cf@posting.google.com>, gswork@mailcity.com (gswork) writes:
> > >
> > > Generally though mathematical models are developed using Fortran & C,
> >
> > Is that true? Fortran is still popular in scientific computing, and
> > C is popular in general, but specifically for mathematical models I
> > wouldn't be surprised if specialized languages like Mathematica and
> > Maple are dominant. And APL and its descendants still seem to be in
> > use in some fields.

Fortran is not designed to compete with Mathematica or Maple in doing
symbolic mathematics, but Fortran 90 and later versions share with
APL, Matlab, and Python (with Numeric or Numarray) the ability to use
arrays and array sections in most places than scalars can be used.

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