From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 26 10:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CEF37B713 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A01D181D5; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:21:06 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:20:38 +0200 To: "Jason C. Wells" , cjclark@alum.mit.edu From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Language for Modeling Mechanical System Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:21 AM -0700 2000/7/26, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Ughh! I haven't heard much good about Fortran. To be fair, I have never > looked at it. I hear that the syntax is _very_ terse. I will take a closer > look at it. Note that Perl has some libraries for doing mathematical operations on arbitrarily large floating point and integer objects. I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were higher-level libraries for doing integrations and other higher-level operations. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message