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by mihaitodor 2669 days ago
I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 called “Ratpack”: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc... over which they added a whole bunch of enterprise fluff.
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> I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95

Why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy

"Internally, both MATLAB and NumPy rely on BLAS and LAPACK for efficient linear algebra computations."

As far as I know BLAS and LAPACK are still based on the decades old FORTRAN code.