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Fortran vs IPython

A side-by-side look at Fortran and IPython. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Fortran

Fortran

Development

Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over half a century.

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IPython

IPython

Development

IPython is an interactive Python shell and notebook environment for data analysis and scientific computing. It offers enhanced introspection, rich media, shell syntax, tab completion, and integrates well with matplotlib for data visualization.

interactiveshellnotebookdata-analysisscientific-computingvisualization

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