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Jon Harrop  
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 More options 19 Aug 2005, 12:48
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
From: Jon Harrop <use...@jdh30.plus.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:48:17 +0100
Local: Fri 19 Aug 2005 12:48
Subject: Re: Ray tracer in Stalin

Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
> Förster vom Silberwald wrote:
>> b) Scheme is highly recommended for *scientific numerical calculations"

> But probably not as fast as Fortran for that.  Yet.

That depends what you're doing. For most interesting problems, it simply
isn't feasible to implement them in Fortran (it is too tedious and
error-prone to be done by hand).

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com


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