Question

In the physic community, what are the most common:
1) Spoken languages (besides English)?
2) Computer programming languages?

*This is a personal question of mine, I am curious to know what others think based on their own experience in the field.

Answer 1

which do you think it is?

Answer 2

I'm thinking 1) French and German 2) Fortran?

Answer 3

I would agree with your languages. Besides the United States, I believe Europe has some of the strongest physics programs (I believe U of Zurich in Switzerland was #1 for its physics program worldwide). CERN is in France and Switzerland, where there is currently a lot of work with the new startup of the accelerator. Germany has always been underrated for its physics programs. They are very strong.

As for computer languages I would have to think mostly C++ and Python. If you look at CERN's C++ framework "ROOT", it is very nice. Python has many numerical and scientific libraries (NumPy, SciPy, MatPlotLib), which are liked a lot as well.

Answer 4

latin that is still used in the science life and all names of objects and other things are primarly in greek or latin

Answer 5

Thanks for the input @pompeii00. I'm currently trying to do one of MIT open courses for programming using Python, so I'm glad you mentioned that one.

Answer 6

Possibly Latin. or some other EUROPEAN LANGUAGE ONLY!
COmputer proramming probably uses binary coding