Re: [tlug] Fortran --> Python (was linux engineer)

[Nava Whiteford <new@example.com>]

>  their own stellar atmosphere code in perl or python or c or ... And
>  so with the students studying under them. (I've also heard from some 
>  theoriticians - even 'young' ones - that  Fortran is still the superior 
>  language for numerical work.)

There was an interesting article doing the rounds a few weeks ago about
how a language can be faster than C, that had one or two interesting comments about Fortran:

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/faster_than_C.html