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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran -vs- C for Numerical Computing
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Date: 28 Apr 88 03:50:22 GMT
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Summary: Try LISP

In article <2869@charon.unm.edu>, cn7gr8ag@ariel.unm.edu writes:
> I'm going to be writing a large numerical simulation which will need to
> be used on both mainframe and personal computers.  The program will be 
> about 5000 to 8000 lines long and portable.  The basic design of the code
> will be to solve a number of coupled partial differential equations for a
> variety of boundary conditions.

There is a very nice package in LISP called 'REDUCE' (or at least it WAS in
lisp, last time I looked).  I know it runs on VAXen, SAGE (Pronounced 'Stride')
and Sun, among others.  It will solve simultaneous partial differential
equations handily, as well as a number of other intersting gee-gaws.

				terry@wsccs