Axel Wienberg (2wienbe@rzdspc15.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
: Mathematics is necessary for programming, but mathematicians usually
: write unintelligable code. They learn it that way. Languages like
: Fortran were developed for mathematicians.
: (do you think I should have crossposted this to alt.philosophy? or rather
: to alt.flame.fortran.programmers.especially.mathematicians? :-)
Now wait a minute. You must be refering to Scientists and Engineers, here.
Mathematicians aren't _that_ bad; besides, these days they use Mathematica,
Maple and Matlab (and C sometimes) at least as much as fortran (oh, excuse
me, I mean FORTRAN).
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-Rodney James (rodney@oce.orst.edu)
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