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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: What language do you use for scientific programming?
Message-ID: <366@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 14:15:53 EDT
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In article <29418@apple.UUCP> mark@apple.UUCP (Mark Lentczner) writes:
>Of course the only real limitation on Smalltalk as a scientific compute
>engine is its speed.

One thing to keep in mind here is what type of "scientific programming" you're
talking about.  Are you concerned with analyzing some data with a few FFT's or
burning up a few CPU-days of Crey time.  Speed is clearly the dominant
consideration in the later case.


						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
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