From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 10:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8088037C2E8 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13210; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:15:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000727111016.0485cd60@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:14:59 -0600 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Jason C. Wells" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <397FC7C8.D1C7BBD9@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000726195620.04ab6ee0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:25 PM 7/26/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >[FORTRAN] It also has a builtin complex type, and common math operations such as >exponentiation and trig functions are also builtin, and so don't incur >function call overhead. Actually, many languages implement exponentiation, trig, etc. as inlines. They look like function calls but aren't. Complex numbers are a plus. But almost every language has libraries that handle them gracefully. The big win in FORTRAN is the optimization. But for modeling a car -- well, unless you're doing a virtual crash test, you'll mostly be checking structural strength and probably modeling the suspension. Neither of these applications needs raw computing power as much as it does ease of use. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message