Re: Blog: Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra?
Thomas Koenig <[email protected]>
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David Jones <[email protected]> schrieb: > 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.. Not sure what you mean by MATINV, it is not part of Fortran. Fortran does have MATMUL (which can usually be mapped to a BLAS routine). > Students need to think in detail about what the computations in linear > algebra are doing. Not only that... numerics in general is a difficult field. -- This USENET posting was made without artificial intelligence, artificial impertinence, artificial arrogance, artificial stupidity, artificial flavorings or artificial colorants.