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- From: mark@kraken.ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:21:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.165612.7661@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep14.141559.601@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >Indeed, most recent CS graduates
- >I've met *also* don't know anything about floating point arithmetic.
- >
- >|> [...] With all their training in {physics or whatever} most
- >|> scientists don't get a good foundation in numerical analysis. [...]
- >
- >Since the computing "science" departments don't provide such a foundation
- >either, where do we turn?
- >
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- We turn to the library.
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- Part of why college graduates are more useful than
- trade school graduates is (if you have hired the
- right ones) that they can assimilate the material
- in a text book.
-
- Sad to say, but I will admit, the CS graduates I
- encountered are probably the weakest of all technical
- majors in learning new material from books.
-
- mark
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