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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
- Subject: Re: scientists as programmers (was: Small Language Wanted)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.171032.15220@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug25.034553.2990@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug25.154501.8654@colorado.edu> <1992Aug25.202307.12365@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Aug26.102735.12519@wl.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:10:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug26.102735.12519@wl.com>, schuette@wl.com (Wade Schuette) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> Can we focus some attention on what CAN and SHOULD be taught to the
- |> scientists who would prefer to write good code and are reasonably bright
- |> but extremely busy. On a very practical, very pragmatic basis.
- |> Suppose you can get 45 minutes of time, and hold a seminar on What every
- |> scientist should know about computing but probably doesnn't... or some such.
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- Depending on the level of expertise and experience of the audience, this
- is an easy question: for all but the most adept, the subject would be
- the semantic properties of floating-point numbers. Only for *very*
- advanced audiences would this be unnecessary instruction.
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- J. Giles
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