Re: What language for mathematical applications?

osmium wrote:
I'm not sure what's the best programming language/framework to handle
this. I was thinking about C# and .NET, do you have a better advice?

I can't think of a single advantage to using C# over Java. Java is portable,
C# is not. I am not a portability nut but if it is free why not make it
portable?

Because C# has the Visual Studio .NET IDE that makes the creation of
user interfaces something extremely easy to do, as far as I know Java
doesn't. Furthermore, the .NET runtime is going to be by default on
Windows PCs, Java is not. And finally... speed. Applications running on
..NET 2.0 Framework are fast and furious, while Java is slower and never
looks like an application "native" to the OS. My audience is going to
be 99% of the times running on Windows.

thanks. sunrise

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