RE: [boost] Re: Boost Mathematicians

From: Reid Sweatman (drunkardswalk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-04 01:10:15

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>> Subject: [boost] Re: Boost Mathematicians
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>> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
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>> |  Oddly enough, scientists is usually pretty
>> | conservative folk; they like what they know.
>> 
>> Is that so odd? Yesterday I talked with a matematician here in Sydney
about Fortran.
>> He uses Fortran because it is good enough for what he is doing. It would
probably take quite some
>> time for him to learn C++, so why should he?
>> 
>
> Agreed. It's the newcomers that we want to snare, before they've
> been indoctrinated into Fortran. New mathematicians tend to
> have at least some computer science training, so they will be looking
> for more than Fortran to write their code in. The competition will
> in fact be in the other direction, from languages like Ocaml.

No, no.  Irony.  It's a literary device.  The tip-off that I was attempting
to employ it is the American colloquialism in re verb number.  ;)

Reid