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Date:Mon Jul 7 16:14:46 1994 
Subject:Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan 
From:Rodney James 
Volume-ID:940708.04 

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)