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Yorick is an interpreted language like Basic or Lisp. For an interpreter,
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Yorick is very fast for many scientific applications. It features:
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* A C-like language, but without declarative statements.
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* An X window system interactive graphics package.
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* Yorick's binary file package can read or write floating point
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formats foreign to the machine where Yorick is running.
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* A library of functions written in the Yorick language.
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* Provisions for embedding compiled subroutines and functions within
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a Yorick interpreter.
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Because Yorick can read either text or binary files, it can be used
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"out of the box" as a pre- and post-processor for most existing
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physics simulation programs.
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Read the article in the Nov/Dec 1995 issue of Computers in Physics
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(Vol. 9, p. 609) for more details.
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