Math Intensive, Calculation Based Website - Which Language Should I Use? [closed]

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I am very new to programming. I am familiar with HTML, C++ and learning PHP to start a database.

I want to make a website which tracks a stock price. I have written various algorithms in Matlab however, MATLAB only has a to-Java conversion.

I was wondering what language would be the best to do a lot of calculations. I want my calculations to be done in real time and plotted. Would Java be the best language for this?

I can do the calculations in C++ but I don't know how to put the plots on the website. Likewise I believe I can do everything in Matlab but the conversion looks a little sketchy.

I would be very thankful if someone with experience with Java, or I also heard python, would comment on my p开发者_高级运维ost.

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My advice: write the website code in Python with Django and do the calculations in Numpy/Scipy. Those two libraries provide a very Matlab-like API for heavy computations. Their performance is excellent. Matplotlib is the associated plotting library.

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It's not so much the language that matters, it's making sure that you have a good mathematics library for it. MATLAB is neat because it does all that matrix math super fast for you, but of course you need to link it with another language like you said.

Your goal should be to either find a good math library for the language you like, or find a language with a good math library you like.

For What It's Worth: I know Python has NumPy (scientific computing package) and Sage Math (a libre Mathematica clone).

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I think you can use PHP or Java Web.

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I would do C++ and write them to a database, then using php you can grab them from the same database and show them online, otherwise then java can do all that but make sure all calculations aren't done on the fly since that will kill your server, especially with stocks that can turn into a lot of data.

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if you want to plot data, then you may be able to pass off some of the calculation to the google chart api:

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/