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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:39:58+00:00

Criteria for ‘better’: fast in math and simple (few fields, many records) db transactions,

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Criteria for ‘better’: fast in math and simple (few fields, many records) db transactions, convenient to develop/read/extend, flexible, connectible.

The task is to use a common web development scripting language to process and calculate long time series and multidimensional surfaces (mostly selecting/inserting sets of floats and doing maths with them).

The choice is Ruby 1.9, Python 2, Python 3, PHP 5.3, Perl 5.12, or JavaScript (node.js).

All the data is to be stored in a relational database (due to its heavily multidimensional nature); all the communication with outer world is to be done by means of web services.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would suggest Python with it’s great Scientifical/Mathematical libraries (SciPy, NumPy). Otherwise the languages are not differing so much, although I doubt that Ruby, PHP or JS can keep up with the speed of Python or Perl.

    And what the comments below here say: at this moment, go for the latest Python2 (which is Python2.7). This has mature versions of all needed libraries, and if you follow the coding guidelines, transferring some day to Python 3 will be only a small pain.

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