Matthias Felleisen writes: > This is not a misconception. It's an understanding based > on spending 15 years next to a top-10 department in scientific > computing, in a computer science department that was spun off > from that department, and a huge research group in the latter > that supported the former. > > What has changed is the world and what it calls scientific > computing :-)
Exactly. Initially scientists picked up computing for number crunching, but today they use it for much more. > Having said that I know that the above-mentioned group have > moved to Java and claim to get decent performance -- but their > programming style is, well, peculiar. HotSpot has improved to the point of making JVM languages a decent choice even for number crunching. I even know a few scientists who claim they actually like Java - but they did C++ before, so they can be excused ;-) Konrad. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
