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

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

2012/6/7 Nicolas Limare <nicolas+tlug@example.com>:

> A clean rewrite with well defined APIs and unit tests would be necessary to
> make computational research verifiable and reproducible.

That is a very good point. So in (at least) one specific way,
computers have made scientific research worse.

> I think the superiority is in the compilers, better tuned for unusual
> HPC architectures than gcc or icc.

+1

Cheers,
Josh