[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > On Mar 26, 8:20 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK... >> I've been told that Both Fortran and Python are easy to read, and are >> quite useful in creating scientific apps for the number crunching, but >> then Python is a tad slower than Fortran because of its a high level >> language nature, so what are the advantages of using Python for >> creating number crunching apps over Fortran?? >> Thanks >> Chris > > While I have never personally dealt with Fortran, I looked it up here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_code_examples > > The code examples speak for themselves. I recommend you look those > over and then look over similar simple program written in Python. > Python is still easier to read. Fortran also appears to be a compiled > language, whereas Python is an interpreted language.
Being 'compiled' or 'interpreted' is not a feature of a language, but of a given implementation of a language (and even then, some implementations of some languages supports both). wrt/ CPython (the reference implementation), it is actually compiled to byte-code - just like Java. The main difference being that the VM is smart enough to automagically (re)compile what's needed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
