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Fortran vs SageMath

A side-by-side look at Fortran and SageMath. 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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SageMath

SageMath

Education & Reference

SageMath is an open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages including NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, and more. It provides an interactive environment and library to support research and teaching across algebra, analysis, calculus, combinatorics, geometry, number theory, and more.

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