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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by harigov on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:22PM (#15479375)
Just because python is slow doesn't necessarily mean that every library is also slow. With numpy/scipy, which are written in C with python bindings, scientific computation is pretty fast. Python is fast becoming standard language for data science with so many tools like notebooks that make it extremely easy to do many things. I am not sure how well it compares to Fortran but it is no brainer to use it over C++, especially for research needs.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by CardenB on Sunday October 15, 2017 @05:38PM (#15479441)
Isn’t numpy written in Fortran?
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by dangerbird2 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:09PM (#15479617)
The native code python extensions for numpy are written in C, but numpy often links to matrix libraries written in Fortran like BLAS and LAPACK
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by Redoubts on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:23PM (#15480098)
Scipy is where a lot of the fortran is.
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