Re: Another SBIR, and Ada is still missing in action

[mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)]

David Weller (dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
: In article <3h6565$2gr@network.ucsd.edu>,
: Matt Kennel <mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu> wrote:
: >Scientists are poor.  We don't have that much money to spend on software.
: >The money we do have we spend on essentials MATLAB and Maple and Fortran.
: >
: Hehe -- all junior scientists are taught to say that mantra!  That's
: cuz they know if they ever said, "Boy, I"m happy with all the
: newfangled equipment I've got", their funds would dry up in a minute!
: (In reality, some labs are dirt poor, others are rich, but the truth
: of the matter is that learning a new language/software tool is a
: steep learning curve many scientists are unwilling to take --
: especially if it takes away from their research time.)

Alright the real translation.

Those PI's who don't write the hard core executable codes but who
do manage the pursestrings don't care to spend money on compilers.

They think that "if they've bought Fortran, and C and (an inferior) C++ are
free, what is the big deal?"  They seem the same thing.

By contrast, there is a big obvious difference between MATLAB and
no-MATLAB: even a Powerbook-wielding email-tapping grant-mongering 
bigshot PI can notice.

Until those former grad students who have been programming all their
careers make it to tenured professor grade.....{and that is getting
harder and harder}

: Amen to that, brother!  Matt, I'm so glad you volunteered to do the
: legwork to get this done... [sound of slamming door]...Hey, Matt,
: wait, come back!

: :-)

	:-)

Geez I've already put my science at risk by volunteering
for one language already....

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