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- From: hougen@uirvlh.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Date: 29 Aug 1992 21:19:32 GMT
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- mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
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- >I personally would love a "Numerical Eiffel" type of language ...
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- Try "Sather". It is an object-oriented programming language that is
- competitive with Fortran in speed for complex problems. Of course,
- the object oriented dispatch makes it slightly slower for some types
- of problems, but the designers have gone to great lengths to make it
- fast. The principle designer, Steven Omohundro, is a physics PhD
- turned computer scientist, so that may explain why he is interested in
- bridging the gap, as it were.
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- Sather is available from Berkeley via anonymous ftp. However, I can't
- seem to find the ftp site at the moment. The author's email address
- is om@icsi.berkeley.edu. Be sure to mention Sather in the subject.
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- Darrell
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