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by bayareanative 2548 days ago
R, SAS, Octave, Mathematica, MATLAB, Excel (lol), FORTRAN and many more come to mind. Julia seems more like flavor of the month.

As an example, I know of a Monte Carlo nuclear reactor simulator that was written in tens of millions of lines of Fortran over a period of 3+ decades by non-software engineer nuclear engineers.

Also, have you used an HP 48 calculator? You can snag an emulator app and a ROM to use it on most smartphones, and it does integration and derivation.

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Comrade Dyatlov? COMRADE DYATLOV?!
I wish HN had gold to give.
Can you tell anything about that simulator? it sounds wild:)