C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)

Re:C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) by poster123 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:46AM (#16273419)

If you are doing scientific computing, have you considered Fortran? The gfortran (GCC Fortran) compiler supports Fortran 2003, which has object-oriented features, and since Fortran 90 the language has had array operations and syntax similar to Matlab or Python with numpy.

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Re:C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) by nextos on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @08:39AM (#16273702)

I'm not a big fan of Fortran for my particular domain, which includes lots of strings (biological sequences). Here Fortran is not as quick. See for example the k-nucleotide benchmark:

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph...

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Re:C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) by pjmlp on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:24PM (#16276729)

I worked with a customer that was using .NET for DNA sequencing.

Not sure what tricks they pulled off regarding unsafe code and parallelism, but it was fully done in C#.

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