Re:Perl Data Language: Scientific Computing with Perl
by 7thaccount on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:15AM
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Same. Obviously a OO scripting language by itself isn't fast enough for most scientific coding, but when the C/Fortran libraries are tightly integrated with lots of stats/plots and other libraries with great IDE/database...etc it makes for a great and free/open scientific modeling platform. It's really the whole package and the language is just 1 component of that.
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Re:Perl Data Language: Scientific Computing with Perl
by analog31 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:21AM
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Indeed, and it's my understanding that supporting that kind of integration is a strength of Python. Since I use Python in the lab, I've also found that the whole ctypes thing is a life saver when dealing with hardware drivers that are only furnished with a C API.