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From: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cynic's Guide to Software Engineering, part 3
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Date: 17 Apr 88 03:17:32 GMT
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In article <39501UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
 
>One of the reasons physicists need super computers is that they usually haven't
>a clue about using data structures to implement sophisticated
>algorithms.  Most P's do most everything by brute force.  Partly, this
>is because FORTRAN makes it so hard to implement clever code.
 
 
   "In the good old days physicists repeated each other's
    experiments, just to be sure.  Today they stick to FORTRAN,
    so that they can share each other's programs, bugs
    included."
 
                             - Edsger Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths
                               that might hurt?", from Selected Writings
                               in Computing: a Personal Perspective.
                               New York, 1982: Springer-Verlag, Inc.