Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing?

[sl4shd0t]

New submitter longhunt writes "I just started my second year of grad school and I am working on a project that involves a computationally intensive data mining problem. I initially coded all of my routines in VBA because it 'was there'. They work, but run way too slow. I need to port to a faster language. I have acquired an older Xeon-based server and would like to be able to make use of all four CPU cores. I can load it with either Windows (XP) or Linux and am relatively comfortable with both. I did a fair amount of C and Octave programming as an undergrad. I also messed around with Fortran77 and several flavors of BASIC. Unfortunately, I haven't done ANY programming in about 12 years, so it would almost be like starting from scratch. I need a language I can pick up in a few weeks so I can get back to my research. I am not a CS major, so I care more about the answer than the code itself. What language suggestions or tips can you give me?" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Ask+Slashdot%3A++Best+Language+To+Lear n+For+Scientific+Computing%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit. ly%2F1bClHe2) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fs tory%2F13%2F10%2F17%2F1433208%2Fask-slashdot-best-language-to-learn-for-scientific-computing%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Df acebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/1433208/ask-slashdot-best-language-to-learn-for-scientific-computing?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

Read more of this story (http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/1433208/ask-slashdot-best-language-to-learn-for-scientific-computing?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.
http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/35028/f/647376/s/3295a733/sc/4/mf.gif


http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/1/rc.img (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/1/rc.htm)
http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/2/rc.img (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/2/rc.htm)
http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/3/rc.img (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/sc/4/rc/3/rc.htm)

http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/a2.img (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/a2.htm)http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/176966258047/u/49/f/647376/c/35028/s/3295a733/a2t.imghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/sj75sNAcqOQ

More... (http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/sj75sNAcqOQ/story01.htm)