On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > 20.02.2012 08:35, Paul Anton Letnes kirjoitti: > > In the language wars, I have one question. > > Why is Fortran not being considered? > > Fortran is OK for simple numerical algorithms, but starts to suck > heavily if you need to do any string handling, I/O, complicated logic, > or data structures. > > Most of the work in Numpy implementation is not actually in numerics, > but in figuring out the correct operation to dispatch the computations > to. So, this is one reason why Fortran is not considered. > > There also used to be a problem with unsigned types not being available. I don't know if that is still the case.
Chuck
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