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Fortran vs SymPy

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

numeric-computingscientific-computingcompiledimperative
SymPy

SymPy

Development

SymPy is an open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics. It provides computer algebra capabilities to manipulate mathematical expressions, calculate limits, solve equations, perform symbolic integration and differentiation, and more.

mathematicssymbolic-mathcomputer-algebra

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