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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 15:10:15 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- zkdc05@trc.amoco.com (Kelly D. Crawford) writes:
-
- >With trillions of lines of existing Fortran in the scientific marketplace, it is a
- >travesty not to teach CS students Fortran sometime during their education.
-
- Most _CS_ students won't encounter fortran in their lives.
- They'll work on applications software, operating systems, compilers,
- GUIs, etc. Maybe 5% of CS grads at most may need to see code written
- in uppercase :-)
-
- If you discussing the education of engineering students, it's an entirely
- different issue, because they are quite likely to find (say) Linpack
- useful. My broad position there is: look to the future. For a kid
- of age 18, the skills which will payoff in the next 10-20 years are
- most important, and I can't imagine how he's better off learning fortran.
-
- (My UG degree was in aero engg. :-))
-
- -ans.
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- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
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