Re: [Nolug] Evo and Outlook

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:59, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Judson Lester <jlester@tulane.edu> writes:
>
> >>> And BAH, who uses FORTRAN anymore???
> >>
> >> People who do matrix manipulation, or are over 50.
> >
> > Scientists still use it. And then there's always junior programmers
> > who have to integrate legacy code into government apps for the NRL.
>
> Hah, only the scientists who haven't heard of PDL
> (http://pdl.perl.org).
>
> PDL (``Perl Data Language'') gives standard Perl the ability to
> compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional
> data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific
> computing.

And don't forget NumPy, Numerical Python.

However, FORTRAN is still a heavyweight with a lot of accumulated
libraries and knowledge...

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