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On 15/09/2014 13:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: |
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>> On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: |
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>>> Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly |
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>>> beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. |
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>> Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence |
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>> with "fortran". |
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> what is wrong with fortran? |
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>>> I guess nothing ever dies. Physicists have to have a language to |
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>>> themselves. |
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>> Unfortunately. First of all technically they are programers. |
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>> It looks like this kind of programmers have a hard time |
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>> learning another programming language. |
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>> Second, major generation/simulation packages are |
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>> moving on to c++. |
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> and that is better why? |
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>> http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html |
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>> http://www.geant4.org/geant4/ |
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>>> Anyway, my_python is comming along...... (pist, don't tell anyone, |
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>>> but I almost, (almost) like python). |
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>> What about Perl? |
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> it is not a language. It is evil incarnated. |
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Perl is an experiment in brain<->cpu mapping. |
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Depending on your POV it has either wildly succeeded beyond all |
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expectations, or is an abysmal failure |
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"More than one way to do it". Ugh. |
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But, there is one very beautiful thing in perl, it's the "unless" keyword |
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Alan McKinnon |
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