On 15/09/2014 13:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: >> On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: >>> Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly >>> beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. >> >> Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence >> with "fortran". >> > > what is wrong with fortran? > >>> I guess nothing ever dies. Physicists have to have a language to >>> themselves. >> >> Unfortunately. First of all technically they are programers. >> It looks like this kind of programmers have a hard time >> learning another programming language. >> Second, major generation/simulation packages are >> moving on to c++. > > and that is better why? > >> >> http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html >> http://www.geant4.org/geant4/ >> >>> Anyway, my_python is comming along...... (pist, don't tell anyone, >>> but I almost, (almost) like python). >> >> What about Perl? >> > > it is not a language. It is evil incarnated.
Perl is an experiment in brain<->cpu mapping. Depending on your POV it has either wildly succeeded beyond all expectations, or is an abysmal failure "More than one way to do it". Ugh. But, there is one very beautiful thing in perl, it's the "unless" keyword -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
