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2-S0CKS t1_j0di1f1 wrote

Reply to comment by mmomtchev in C Programming Language Influence Graph [OC] by yaph

Ah is it the parallel processing? Thats interesting. And yeah I can confirm more weather models (mathematical indeed) use it too

Julia sounds interesting, I had never heard of it before. Is it "new"?

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mmomtchev t1_j0gilav wrote

The parallel processing and the libraries - especially LAPACK.

All those libraries for FORTRAN are of very high quality with state of the art parallel processing.

Scientific parallel processing is a niche market, there isn't that much money in it and the development is very difficult.

It will take decades for Julia to catch up - which of all languages is currently the most probable successor.

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szychacha94 t1_j0dsbdw wrote

I don't know what you consider new, but few years ago when I was still working on my thesis Julia was in beta testing I believe. Nice concept at the that time a bit immature but they had few years to improve that.

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2-S0CKS t1_j0dtybz wrote

Yeah thats what I'd consider new. Thanks, all very interesting stuff

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