Hello list,

 

I’m just starting out on my dissertation work, which is going to involve a spatio-temporal analysis of a dataset that consists of ~45,000 observations.

From what I’ve heard, experienced and read about in the archives, this would basically kill BUGS.

 

So it may come down to having to write my own MCMC sampler program, in some language such as C, C++, Fortran or JAVA. I’ve talked to three people so far today, and all three are adamant that their choice of language is better than the others (of course they all chose differently)

 

So I’m posing the same question to the folks out there that have worked with some of these languages.

 

What would be the easiest language to learn, what would be the most CPU/Memory efficient language for use on a non-top of the line PC?

 

 

 

P.S. Sorry about that Dave.

 

Thanks,

-Robin