On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 06:56 -0800, Vince O'Sullivan wrote:
[...]
> Yes indeed, a pickup truck is basically a better horse and cart in the
> same way that Scala is a better Fortran.
[...]

Have you actually looked at Fortran 2009?  Fortran remains the most
suitable language for writing computational intensive algorithms.  Java,
Scala, C, etc. don't get a look in.  C++ and D can get close. 

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