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Hi, I'm brand new here so of course I have a question. Does anybody join and NOT ask a question right away? lol
I am new to web development but I learn fast and am ambitious. I have a web application in mind and I want to get myself edubacated to put it together in the next six months.
This application requires some heavy-duty calculations, lots of them; more than I've seen on any web app so far. I am a whiz at math, well not really but relative to most folks I can claim that.
I've already implemented these calcs in a standalone application so I have a very good idea of what the calcs will be doing. This app was written in LISP (years ago) because at the time that's kinda all I knew and when all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails. Actually, the output is graphical so it was written for AutoCAD, which includes LISP. Most AutoCAD folks just do little scripts but I went way way past that for this app.
This app will use some kind of AJAX type approach and will include MathML and SVG to replicate and enhance the displayed output I now get with AutoCAD.
Trigonometry, iterative solutions, big long expressions calculated many times: when I say math intensive, I mean there is a LOT of calculating required.
So the question is . . . .
What server-side language best supports math functions? I've tried to answer this myself but I cannot assure myself that ANY of the languages can do the job. Do I need to bail out to client-side calcs? If so, what do I use there?
Thanks very much for any input.
Bob
