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Yorick (programming language)
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<p>Yorick is an <a href="/facts/Interpreted_language/JB85fbyb">interpreted</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> designed for <a href="/facts/Numerics/B2c7UbaX">numerics</a>, <a href="/facts/Graph_of_a_function/htYX0BGX">graph</a> plotting, and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to <a href="/facts/Array_data_structure/BKGvF8AM">array</a> syntax, and extensible via <a href="/facts/C_/Ky2No763">C</a> or <a href="/facts/Fortran/m1KqjcMU">Fortran</a> routines. It was created in 1996 by <a href="/facts/David_H._Munro/NchdHTlL">David H. Munro</a> of <a href="/facts/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory/WuXIbIKz">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>. </p>