Chapter 5. Scientific and Mathematical Applications
Amazingly, in some scientific communities, the Fortran programming language still rules supreme (I know, it makes me cringe too). The reason is not because Fortran is necessarily a fantastic programming language. Rather, it is the large set of built-in mathematical operations that come with the Fortran core libraries and the large base of existing programs using these APIs. Java has been around for a decade, runs on many more platforms, has some core APIs that Fortran doesn't, and does some things that are not even possible in standard Fortran. So why isn't Java more popular for writing math ...
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