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Originally Posted by Attilitus
Well I am not sure if it is a corporate standard, like one poster suggested. However, it is definitely a very popular standard in academia for scientific calculations. (when C/C++ modules have not been needed/written.)
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I'd have to respectfully disagree with you there. If I want to do scientific calculations I'll have several prerequisites, which normally either fall under speed of execution, or reliability/accuracy. For either of those, I wouldn't choose python, and I don't think most academics would either.
Java and C are clearly the most popular programming languages, however. C is used for everything. Even PHP is built using C. And Java is used by millions of organisations around the world (NASA for one), and in our mobile phones etc.
Sources:
http://langpop.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuri...age_popularity