Le Mercredi 12 Septembre 2012 16:40 CEST, "George M. Sheldrick" <[log in to unmask]> a écrit:
May I add a little personal joke to the serious remark by George.
This remembers me a discussion I had with Jorge Navaza, let's say 15 years ago, about the programming language of the future.
(To a good approximation, 15 years ago, the future was now)
The answer by Jorge was: "I don't know what it will be, but I know it's name will be FORTRAN".
I hope he will confirm the statement...
Philippe Dumas
> I always use FORTRAN for such tasks, especially if speed is important.
>
> George
>
> On 09/12/2012 04:32 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > since this probably comes up a lot in manipulation of pdb/reflection
> > files and so on, I was curious what people thought would be the best
> > language for the following: I have some huge (100s MB) tables of
> > tab-delimited data on which I would like to do some math (averaging,
> > sigmas, simple arithmetic, etc) as well as some sorting and rejecting.
> > It can be done in Excel, but this is exceedingly slow even in 64-bit, so
> > I am looking to do it through some scripting. Just as an example, a
> > "sort" which takes >10 min in Excel takes ~10 sec max with the unix
> > command sort (seems crazy, no?). Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks, and sorry for being off-topic,
> >
> > Jacob
> >
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