Re: Application development (entirely) in C

[Leif Laaksonen <Leif.Laaksonen "-at-" convex.csc.fi>]

Peter,
 I don't want to start a war. It is absolutely the same to me in which
 language an application is written. The results the application is
 producing are the important stuff.
 Do you Peter know if most of the new scientific programs (QC, MD/MM ..)
 are still written in fortran or is c slowly takin over? Do you know
 if any quantum chemistry program package is written in c  (or any
 other language than fortran)?
 Do you have any benchmark results for any real problems where there
 exist an algorithm both in c and fortran, I would be very interested
 to see the results. So much about the tools!
 How about discussing applications now. What would be on top of your
 shopping list if you would be asked? What kind of software would you
 need most now? Are you happy with the graphics tools available or
 do you see the numbercrunching part more important?
 Cheers,
 -leif laaksonen