On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Joachim Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org> wrote: > Am 20.09.2013 22:49, schrieb F. B.: [...] >> It was developed by physicists at CERN :) > > Many physicists still love Fortran.
Because it is still the best language for the job, as long as you do numerics. I use Fortran every day and I love it. I created these pages: http://fortran90.org/ you can see that modern Fortran is as easy to use as Python/NumPy (e.g. http://fortran90.org/src/rosetta.html), but very very fast. But for symbolics that we do, C++ seems to be the best option. If in few years maybe Julia or Numba becomes a viable alternative, we can always call the C++ core from it, so the work is not lost. On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Stefan Krastanov <stefan.krasta...@yale.edu> wrote: >> Being written by physicists, CERN or no, isn't necessarily a sign of high >> software quality. > > Actually, it is a pretty reliable sign of bad quality ;) > I am a physicist. I've seen good and bad codes written by physicists, I don't think it can be generalized. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
