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Issues relevant to the steering mechanism for object-oriented scientific computations are examined. The concept of computation steering is delineated, and its benefits are discussed based on past experiences with its application to scientific computations. Experiences of using an object-oriented scripting language called Python to steer C++ applications are presented in further details. It is found that Python and C++ can be combined in an elegant way which combines the benefits of steering and the advantages of using an efficient object-oriented language for scientific modeling.
Yang et al. (2002) studied this question.