[Info-vax] Development Tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 12:51 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <pv5u3p$ilh$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> ...Many people do...namely people who write their own
>>> applications.  They need an OS and  a compiler, that's it...
>>
>> That's true, as far as it goes.  Developers can work with an operating
>> system and just a compiler.  Though developers are a fickle lot.
> 
> It's true for essentially all of scientific computing; all
> "applications" are written by the "developers".  No-one cares about a
> bells-and-whistles spreadsheet or whatever.

I must admit that I see scientific computing today slightly
more diverse.

I see 4 categories.

"small calculation guys" - they want Fortran, C, OpenMP,
CUDA, BLAS and LAPACK.

"big calculation guys" - they want the same as above *plus*
something that can distribute load on huge clusters with
hundreds or thousands of nodes.

"small data guys" - they want Python and R.

"big data guys" - they want Hadoop, Hive and Pig.

Arne