Here is the bottom line.

I really don't care what language is used. Nor are earthquake forecasts of any personal interest to me.

These efforts are 100% aimed at saving lives, improving the health of people around the world, and strengthening world economies.

So, the bottom line is,

"Whatever will get the job done to help us save lives etc."

What I am posting on the EarthWaves board is the “Tip of the iceberg” or more accurately, “A single ice cube on the iceberg.”

Usually if possible I work with small groups of scientists and government officials to get things accomplished. And no one ever hears about those projects though they often change the history of our world.

My notes posted to this board are here because there are no groups around the world that are interested in making any progress with forecasting earthquakes. There are only groups that are interested in developing specific approaches to predicting them. And some of them such as Pavel Kalenda’s group are willing to share information with other forecasting researchers. Many are not.

So, whatever computer language is used is fine. I myself wouldn’t mind jumping to C. But I need to work with a language that Roger will work with so that we can coordinate projects. And he appears to now be moving towards Fortran. If you can get him to work with C then just let me know.

Finally, the Fortran Newsgroup people were extremely helpful. I would expect that for C as well if there is a C group. The Python people were also quite helpful. But Python just looks like a different version of Perl.

Many of the Perl Newsgroup people “suck eggs” in my expert opinion. And if that were not bad enough, they appear to try to discourage other Perl users from helping anyone they don’t like.

These are personal opinions.