From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <92c6ef4a96c74d6f19a6e4f23028752b@terzarima.net> References: <92c6ef4a96c74d6f19a6e4f23028752b@terzarima.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:52:53 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f46fa2b4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 12, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: >> 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? > Hopefully, when I finish it, my hoc will be both a mathematical and a scientific haven. Sure, it can't compute the atomic mass of an up quark, but it can eventually be used to calculate orbits of far-away planetary bodies (once I learn calculus :-))