Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need? [message #36514 is a reply to message #36427] |
Sun, 21 September 2003 12:56   |
phil chastney
Messages: 5 Registered: September 2003
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"R.G. Stockwell" <noemail@please.com> wrote in message
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> "John Sullivan" <spamtrap@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> In message <Dbjbb.20886$Od.764849@twister.tampabay.rr.com>, David Frank
>> If you follow the link to the 920 programming languages on page
>> http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/contents/language.html
>> you will see that at least 5 languages are missing:
>> A, A+, J, K, Q-Nial
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> Also missing are IDL, PVWAVE, and MATLAB, which lack of mention
> seems odd since those are the newsgroups to which this message is
> crossposted.
SIMPL is also missing, which is a favourite of mine because it has been used 5
or 6 times, for completely different languages (which are not to be confused
with the current Linux initiative)
actually, I think I could name a couple of dozen other omissions . . . /phil
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