On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:52:11PM +0100, pbm wrote:
> Thomas Bridge, Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:38:01PM +0000:
> > My father lectures in Chemistry and swears by Fortran. To the extent
> You lucky man. Mine used a TI/59 until 1995, when he switched to MS Works 2.0
> for Windows 3.11. But he's 63 now, I don't blame him. His point is that "to
> calculate an heat exchanger, you don't need many calculations". :)
I think it very much depends on what exactly you're doing in Chemistry. My
sister has a PhD in chemistry and I'm reasonably sure she did no programming
through out her research project. I do know that those in my family who do
lots of number crunching (and I mean the sort of number crunching you kick off
at 9am in the hope of getting a result when you come back from a late lunch)
swear by Fortran.
Thomas
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