> One problem I have never been able to resolve - I accept that C is > better for systems programming, but why on earth does anyone use it for > scientific code? Can somebody enlighten me? >
Obviously, that assertion is a mistake. There are many scientists writing scientific code in C. Few examples of scientific tools written in C: Aztec (a parallel iterative library for solving linear systems) FFTW Gnu Linear Programming Kit Gnu Scientific Library NAG C Library Open Optimization Library PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation Seismic Unix SLEPc, the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem computation SUNDIALS (SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers) TAO (Toolkit for Advanced Optimization) Regards, -- Ricardo Biloti Department of Applied Mathematics IMECC/UNICAMP
