Scientific computing with D

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> I use NumPy often for it's interactive capabilities.  Plotting and
>> exploring data at the Python prompt.   That's hard to do with a
>> compiled language.    A static language like D cannot satisfy that
>> kind of use-case easily.  Maybe Sci-MiniD there? :-)
>
> The D compiler is fast enough that this should be quite doable. On my 6 year
> old XP machine, compiling and linking a program a few lines long takes less
> than half a second.
>

Or, you know, they could use MiniD!  <_<