Le Mercredi 12 Septembre 2012 16:40 CEST, "George M. Sheldrick" <[email protected]> a écrit:
May I add a little personal joke to the serious remark by George. This remembers me a discussion I had with Jorge Navaza, let's say 15 years ago, about the programming language of the future. (To a good approximation, 15 years ago, the future was now) The answer by Jorge was: "I don't know what it will be, but I know it's name will be FORTRAN". I hope he will confirm the statement... Philippe Dumas > I always use FORTRAN for such tasks, especially if speed is important. > > George > > On 09/12/2012 04:32 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > since this probably comes up a lot in manipulation of pdb/reflection > > files and so on, I was curious what people thought would be the best > > language for the following: I have some huge (100s MB) tables of > > tab-delimited data on which I would like to do some math (averaging, > > sigmas, simple arithmetic, etc) as well as some sorting and rejecting. > > It can be done in Excel, but this is exceedingly slow even in 64-bit, so > > I am looking to do it through some scripting. Just as an example, a > > "sort" which takes >10 min in Excel takes ~10 sec max with the unix > > command sort (seems crazy, no?). Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, and sorry for being off-topic, > > > > Jacob > > > > -- > > ******************************************* > > Jacob Pearson Keller > > Northwestern University > > Medical Scientist Training Program > > email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > ******************************************* > > -- > Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS > Dept. Structural Chemistry, > University of Goettingen, > Tammannstr. 4, > D37077 Goettingen, Germany > Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068 > Fax. +49-551-39-22582
