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A comment on Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. Parent comment

Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica by forgotpwd16 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:31AM (#31930330)
>as legacy as Fortran is now

Disappointingly because modern Fortran is a nice language for numerical computing.

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Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica by catchclose8919 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @08:56AM (#31931783)
Compared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.
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Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica by forgotpwd16 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:39AM (#31934033)
Issue is most such codes are written in C and C++. Also anything else usually lacks native multidimensional arrays, element-wise array operations, and parallel programming facilities, let alone raw performance.
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