Re:OOPs (I did it again) (Score 1)

Indeed. Physicists are the same as engineers. All I care about is 1) code that is readable enough for most other physicists and 2) wall-clock time. FORTRAN wins in virtually every instance I've come across. That said, there is an emotional response among physicists using C or C++ for scientific computing. For jobs that aren't so computationally intensive, C++ can be great. Many physicists have started using C and C++ extensively, but it's not what I would call pervasive.