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Doug Hunt wrote: > Jeremy Howard wrote: > > > - Mathematica (combines functional, declarative, and procedural styles; > > implements memoization, lazy lists, and array notation) > > - Matlab (fast and simple array language) > > - C++ expression templates such as POOMA and Blitz++ (implicit looping and > > generalised slicing; loops unrolled and parse trees walked completely at > > compile time resulting in zero run-time overhead) > > - FORTRAN (still the most widely used numeric programming language) > > - Haskell (effective data crunching in a purely functional paradigm) > > </quote> > > > > I'd certainly add Numeric Python to this list now I've got to know it > > better, and Java libraries such as: > > > > http://www.vni.com/products/wpd/jnl/JNL/docs/intro.html > > Jeremy: > > You might also look at APL, a language which has been doing really funky > N-dimensional > array manipulation for longer than anyone... > Good point. I can't believe I forgot to mention it. Also worth looking at is J, APL's successor: http://www.jsoftware.com/ with a free implementation available from: http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j405b.exeThread Previous | Thread Next