dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) (11/06/90)
Hello. When busy people select languages for solving technical problems, they consider several factors: features of the language, their familiarity with the language, compatibility with old code and/or libraries, recommendations of peers, price of compiler/environment, quality of compiled (assembled) code, and so on. I am interested in opinions, or pointers to published opinions, on the relative merits of the popular programming languages. I.e., what types of problems does each language solve best, what practical considerations govern language selection (i.e, why the "latest and greatest" may not be the best choice), etc. My interest is primarily in software useful to scientists and engineers, both user-written software, and large commercial and/or public-domain packages. -- Dan Mocsny Snail: Internet: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu Dept. of Chemical Engng. M.L. 171 dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu University of Cincinnati 513/751-6824 (home) 513/556-2007 (lab) Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0171