Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Languages for number crunching Message-ID: <743@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 15:36:43 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.743 Posted: Tue Nov 12 15:36:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 07:46:06 EST References: <722@sri-arpa.ARPA> <5910@tektronix.UUCP> <741@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 10 > In the meantime, as you say, we seem to be stuck with FORTRAN. > -- > D Gary Grady I was at a seminar on large scale scientific computing given by Bob Voigt (of ICASE) and he was asked what language would be used for number crunching in the year 2000. His response was that he didn't know what the language would be --- but he predicted that it would be called FORTRAN. --henry schaffer