On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:55:32PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 14:21, kevin lyda wrote:
> > cue mail from people singing the praises of the stunning number of math
> > libraries for fortran.
> It's my impression that most maths projects at a research level -
> at least in subjects like cryptography and number theory -
> are written in C.
> The work in my dept on Lattice QCD all seems to be written in C
> for parallel computing.
> In fact I haven't seen anyone writing in Fortran for a long time.
yes, but you're a math person. i was referring to engineers doing math.
yes, i know, they don't do real math any more than they do real physics.
kevin
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