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		iopq on April 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programm... I wouldn't even bother. Most people just use C for number crunching.

piokuc on April 21, 2014 [–]

Well, most of the number crunching code running on the biggest supercomputers today is actually Fortran code - in the meteorology field, for example, virtually all atmospheric models are implemented in Fortran.

adw on April 21, 2014 | [–]

My former field's solid-state physics and that's the same deal.

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