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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:55:02 +0000
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> Actually, a lot of scientists seem to use Fortran 90.
> Current versions of gfortran support (most of?) Fortran 95.

i'm hoping that eventually there will be good languages
for scientists to use, but given that many C/C++ users migrated
to Java, perhaps the traffic is quite often in the wrong direction.

more seriously, what are the statistics for the use of programming
systems in scientific applications?