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- Subject: All my favourite tools
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.081916.11923@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:19:16 GMT
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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- What do you think essential or very useful computer tools for today's
- scientist?
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- In the 'essential' category I would include a spreadsheet, a good graphics
- package, a FORTRAN compiler with NAG, IMSL or equivalent libraries and a
- word processor capable of producing high - quality formulas.
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- In my 'extremely useful to have' category are two UNIX utilities: awk
- for manipulating data in tabular form and make for maintaining all the
- different sort of files often associated with a single experiment. Also
- very useful is a symbolic math program like Mathematica or Maple.
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- I suppose that more statistically inclined people will also need a good
- statistics package.
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- Anything I've missed?
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- Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
-