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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by arcanus on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:36PM (#13207480)
A great deal of that is for post-processing, however. Very little python used in the compute heavy pieces of scientific computation.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by maus42 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:14PM (#13207685)
I know a person who works in atmospheric physics group. All the heavy physics simulation and modeling happens in Fortran, and then they do the "lighter" analysis, summary statistics, plots, visualizations, etc with a Python-based stack.
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