If I had stayed at Bell Labs I might have learned Erlang. On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 9:28 AM Bob Ballance <balla...@swcp.com> wrote:
> At the first conference on Object-oriented Frameworks for Scientific > Programming, the room divided more or less down the center. On one side, > attendees said “I love overloaded operators in C++ because I can make my > code look just like the physics equations.” On the other side, attendees > said “I love overloaded operators in C++ because I can make my code look > just like FORTRAN.” > > These days, I focus on Elixir and Erlang, both functional languages that > share the same virtual machine so they are interoperable. Elixir has a > gentler syntax, but Erlang has the more powerful libraries. Erlang also has > a pretty well-developed interface into C, since they originally used it to > control telephone switches. > > … bob > > On Aug 9, 2020, at 8:56 AM, Roger Frye <frye.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Galileo wrote in Italian in *Opera Il Saggiatore* > > [The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become > familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in > mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other > geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to > comprehend a single word. > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 10:55 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 11:13:36AM -0600, Prof David West wrote: >> > >> > For specific domains, a language that allows easy, straightforward >> expression >> > of domain concepts is superior. COBOL for business applications, FORTRAN >> > (FORTRESS, Guy Steele's parallel FORTRAN) for physics, and some >> intentional >> > DSL's. >> >> I disagree with Fortran being ideal for Physics - probably some >> combination of Python or Julia would be. Actually, I'm hard pressed to >> find an obvious niche for Fortran these days - C++ is now a better >> language for High Performance Computing applications, for >> instance. Fortran has hung around in certain areas for cultural >> reasons. >> >> Can't comment too much about Cobol for business applications, but I >> would have thought Java or C# might be more suited. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au >> http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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