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Re: Request for computer help.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Sep 11, 22:03 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Sep 11, 22:03 -0400
George, You missed one important class of programs in your evaluation, which are the ultra high-level math/science packages such as Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, Scilab, etc. As Dan Allen pointed out, standard computer languages such as Python, Perl, C, Fortran, Basic, Java, etc, can do anything and do it faster, but then so can Assembler do it faster than standard languages. The ultra-high-level packages are much easier to learn, much faster and more compact to program, much easier to document, have built-in graphics, and are fast enough for all but extremely compute-intensive problems. In this latter regard, I expect they'd even be suitable for solving three-body problems, etc. Extremely compute-intensive problems are things such as massive weather simulations that run on super computers of various sorts. Fred
