{"id":76567,"date":"2014-04-24T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=76567"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:27:06","slug":"common-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section presents resources about languages that are very commonly used by many SCC users. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wizard-blocks clearfix no-buttons\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/c\/\">C<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>C is a classic language choice for research computing, because with it, you can produce the fastest applications.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/fortran\/\">Fortran<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Fortran is another classic language choice for research computing. It is particularly useful for performing array-based calculations.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wizard-blocks clearfix no-buttons\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/python\/\">Python<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Python is a general purpose, interpretive programming language. It is useful for both small-scale scripting tasks and large scale applications.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/matlab\/\">MATLAB<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>MATrix LABoratory is a user-friendly, popular, general-purpose environment for matrix algebra computations. Its many toolboxes cover applications in Biology, Aerospace, Finance, Data Acquisition, etc.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wizard-blocks clearfix no-buttons\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/r-basics\/\">R<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sccsvc.bu.edu\/software\/#\/\">Full List of SCC Software<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>See a full list of all the software applications and languages available on the SCC.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section presents resources about languages that are very commonly used by many SCC users. C C is a classic language choice for research computing, because with it, you can produce the fastest applications. Fortran Fortran is another classic language choice for research computing. It is particularly useful for performing array-based calculations. Python Python is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1692,"featured_media":0,"parent":75314,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76567"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140985,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76567\/revisions\/140985"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}