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Topic	Let's talk software for scientific computing and plotting
scar the 1 09/23/17 8:26:20 PM #37:	MutantJohn posted... C++ just takes a long time to learn and a lot if discipline to use. Most scientists lack the required passion for programming to learn it effectively. Writing C++ also takes longer. If it didn't, there would be literally no benefit to use high-level scripting languages. And when the biggest time cost is processing massive amounts of data with routines that were already optimized in C or FORTRAN, you're not going to want to double it triple the time you spend programming to shave off some 10% of overhead on a script you'll be running for a month then never touch again. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:887163867] in Let's talk... [t:75803573]...</cite> <quote><cite>MutantJohn posted...</cite> <quote>C++ just takes a long time to learn and a lot if discipline to use. Most scientists lack the required passion for programming to learn it effectively.</quote> Writing C++ also takes longer. If it didn't, there would be literally no benefit to use high-level scripting languages. And when the biggest time cost is processing massive amounts of data with routines that were already optimized in C or FORTRAN, you're not going to want to double it triple the time you spend programming to shave off some 10% of overhead on a script you'll be running for a month then never touch again. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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