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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Couture [mailto:rex{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 9:04 AM
>
> Even worse, you can do calculations with FORTRAN
> that you may never be able to do with Oberon, CP, or any C derivative.
>
Are scientists really still using general-purpose computer languages for
this sort of work? It made sense when I studied Physics back in the
early 70's as there was no alternative apart from slide rules and
logarithm tables. But now??? I thought that higher-level
application-specific tools like Mathematica and MatLab were used for
this purpose these days.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
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