My question was why do people do it? The question of whether is one to
which I already know the answer.
Richard James.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Ricardo Biloti wrote:
> > 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
>
>
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