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Re:No One Programs Any More by bbgm on Friday October 24, 2008 @04:51PM (#342929)
Not quite true. I know a lot of scientists who program in Java (depends on the community) and there are any number of companies supporting scientific computing that are Java shops as well. Usually you will see a mix of Java or C++, a scripting language (python seems to be the most common) and Matlab. And yep some Fortran holdouts
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Re:No One Programs Any More by schtog on Saturday October 25, 2008 @09:31AM (#343543)
The people using Python are they using scipy+matplotlib or MatLab for the numerical stuff?
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Re:No One Programs Any More by etal on Saturday October 25, 2008 @11:30AM (#343595)
Depends on the field -- I think Matlab is still a little more popular, especially among engineers, but SciPy (or just plain NumPy) is good for biologists.

There's also a need for glue code and other non-numerical scripting. For example, PyMol is a pretty popular program for molecule visualization, and as you can guess, Python is its scripting language.

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