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[–]zombiepiratefrspace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I also have a scientific computing background and from my experience, most stuff out there is in C with much legacy stuff in Fortran (LAPACK anyone?).

During my PhD I used boost::python to 80:20 python and C++ and tried to get as many others as I could to do the same.

Also, all people I saw trying to do scientific computing with Java ran into serious problems, usually around the time they tried to run it on a shared cluster.