From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:50:48 +0100 From: "y i y u s" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port In-Reply-To: <92c6ef4a96c74d6f19a6e4f23028752b@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071112233236.GA36132@mero.morphisms.net> <92c6ef4a96c74d6f19a6e4f23028752b@terzarima.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb777032-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2007/11/13, Charles Forsyth : > > 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? > > I'm just starting (this is my first year working after finishing my studies), but I can tell you what I have seen so far is matlab, mathematica, and a lot of excel (I think you cannot understand how I miss awk to do simple things...) -- - yiyus || JGL .