[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Nov 5 19:47:38 EST 2023
On 11/5/2023 7:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Fortran was very widely used back in the days in physics, astronomy,
> chemistry, biology, medicine, economics etc..
>
> Some probably still use Fortran.
>
> But a lot of that stuff are done in Python today. Today
> Python is the language for scientific computing.
>
> Note that the interpreted Python is of course only
> "orchestrating" the number crunching - the number crunching
> itself are done in native code - Fortran, Fortran converted to C
> (yes!) or C.
And in case someone wonders.
SciPy should contain Fortran while NumPy should contain Fortran
converted to C.
Arne
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