Re: performance and eloquence


David Golden wrote:
Andrew Wolven wrote:

I am a mechanical engineering major. Why do I feel like I need to use
MATLAB?

I dunno. Real Mechanical Engineers use Fortran and like it.

Either I'm not Real or you are an idiot.

(Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds. Fortran 90->95->2003 has become
miles away from many non-fortranners idea of fortran, just as common
lisp is miles away from many non-lispers ancient mental picture
of lisp).

So are you going to rewrite for me DOE-2 in FORTRAN 2003 so that the
engineers can read the knowledge base? Has to be as easy as Excel to
program for them. Heck, why not integrated with Excel? A KBE program
like GDL or Icad can be connected to excel, but you still have to write
the DOE stuff. MATLAB, I have seen in docs say they do OLE servers.
But why do I have to connect all of this external stuff? It's just
more work. Oh wait!!! I really like FORTRAN!!! Why didn't I think of
that first.

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