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Re: How we train numerical programmers
- To: Eleftherios Gkioulekas <lf at amath dot washington dot edu>
- Subject: Re: How we train numerical programmers
- From: Gerard Jungman <jungman at lanl dot gov>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:31:35 -0600
- CC: gsl-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: LANL T-8
- References: <m13Dtwt-0004DCC@gondwana>
Eleftherios Gkioulekas wrote:
>
> The problem is that desperately needed innovations in software
> do not count as "research" in our community. Papers with stupid
> plots that you can not confirm without contacting their author
> to see the code, do. We treat software like a LAB, a "tool". That's the
> source of all evil.
That is the most intelligent statement I have
seen yet on this list. Needless to say, I have
been telling people this for years...
I am touched by the thought that, scattered out there is a
small handful of people like you, who understand the truth,
each left wondering if they are truly alone in a mindless
universe of inane plot-makers.
We should all band together, like the
Fantastic Four and the X-Men, and stuff
all the plot-makers down a black hole, never
to return to our spacetime continuum.
--
G. Jungman