Re: Blog: Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra?

"David Jones" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups sci.math,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.python
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Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Johann "Myrkraverk" Oskarsson <[email protected]> schrieb:
> 
> > Best wishes, and happy switching from Python to Fortran 77!
> 
> Fortran 77 makes little sense, modern Fortran variants (Fortran
> 90+) are available with free compilers and offer much more comfort
> and safety.

Recall that the modern bits of modern Fortran might well lead a student
to leap to use of MATINV, when MATINV should not be used. Etc..
Students need to think in detail about what the computations in linear
algebra are doing.
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