What's the best language for physics modeling?

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FCBastiat picture FCBastiat · Sep 25, 2010 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

I've been out of the modeling biz, so to speak, for a while now. When I was in college, most of the models I worked with were written in FORTRAN, which I never liked. I'm looking to get back into science, so I'm wondering if there are modern languages with feature sets suited for this kind of application. What would you consider to be an optimal language for simulating complex physics systems?

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Daniel Rodriguez picture Daniel Rodriguez · Sep 25, 2010

While certainly Fortran was the absolute ruler for this, Python is being used more and more exactly for this purpose. While it is very hard to say which is the BEST program for this, I've found python pretty useful for physics simulations and physics education.

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