Re: What language for mathematical applications?

osmium wrote:
<plasticsunrise@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I plan to build some Windows based GUI applications for educational
mathematics (K12) and also for more advanced math (think numerical
packages like matlab or cas like mathematica).

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?


C# is free too - it's just MS's IDE and tools that aren't - for example,
check out SharpDevelop:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/


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