| Re: What does an optimal scientific programming language/environment need? [message #36534 is a reply to message #36427] |
Wed, 01 October 2003 18:01   |
bv
Messages: 1
Registered: October 2003
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grunes wrote:
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> I'm working on creating an optimal scientific programming language and
> environment. My hope is that people who use current environments have
> specific things they love about it, that need to be included. For now
> I'm trying to combine the best concepts from FORTRAN, BASIC, C, APL,
> IDL, PV-WAVE, and possibly MATLAB.
Before you embark on what is bound to be a long and winding road you
might want to consider a recent quote by "DB" from sci.math.num-analysis
ng which would invariably apply to whatever you might come up with.
"To get any chance of succeeding new programming languages should
from the beginning provide a huge advantage compensating the loss of
decades of expertises contained in the already available libraries, in
the trained people, as well as in the compiler technology. Now to make
the situation worse, the many functional languages compete with each
others."
--
Dr.B.Voh
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Applied Algorithms http://sdynamix.com
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