[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

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On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 5:51:38 PM UTC-5, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Michael Torrie wrote:
> > On 01/30/2015 10:31 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > 
> >>And what about the grey area between lightweight and heavyweight?
> > 
> > That's what the smart pointers are for.
> 
> I'd say it's what higher-level languages are for. :-)
> 
> I'm completely convinced nowadays that there is
> *no* use case for C++. If you need to program the
> bare metal, use C. For anything more complicated,
> use a language that has proper memory-management
> abstractions built in.

Lots of people are using C++ to build packages for statistical programming language R, using the package Rcpp. It has been possible to build such packages for R and S using Fortran and C since the beginning, and many have done so, but the wide usage of Rcpp suggests that there are advantages to using C++. C++ is still the primary language used by financial derivatives quants.