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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Serious Programming
- Message-ID: <3699@mitech.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:25:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.232239.9748@access.usask.ca> <BxwrMF.Ctw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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- In article <BxwrMF.Ctw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
- > (no one is using ML or
- > Scheme or Haskell or FP to do scientific computing ).
- > am i wrong in saying this?
-
- True, you are wrong. Not only that, you just -have- to be made to look
- foolish by making a statement as general as "No one is using X to do Y."
-
- Scheme: (1) Lawrence Livermore Labs just released a system for scientific
- computing that has at its core their own scheme interpreter.
- (2) Ever heard of a guy named Sussman? He has been publishing stuff
- the last 10 years the area of computational physics. There is
- a rumor that just possibly he might be using Scheme.
- (3) I get mail all the time from people who have been using
- the mini scheme interpreter SIOD as a scripting language
- for a scientific computing environment.
-
- FP etc:
-
- Only somebody that has been living in a cave would not be able to
- figure out that a vast amount of the funding and hardcore interest
- in "high-performance" computing is in one way or another scientific
- computing. Hardcore number crunching.
-
-