Pierre Hugonnet wrote:
> > - They want to build OO industrial applications (don't laugh please):
> > I'm afraid that software engineering is a profession, and that most of
> > scientists (including me) are simply not able to produce good OO code.
> > the point is not only the knowledge of the syntax...
>
Roger Glover wrote:
> Lab technician is a profession too, but that does not stop most
> experimental chemists from being excellent lab techicians. Using
> object technology is a skill on par with being able to work safely
> and effectively in a chemistry lab, but *not* on par with most true
> scientific and engineering work. I have no doubt that if you thought
> it was truly important to your work you could pick up the basics in
> just a few weeks and be thoroughly skilled within a year.
Excellent point! I just wish the Fortran itself could, when a SE
issue was truly important, "pick up the basics in just a few weeks"
and make them "thoroughly skilled within a year". Otherwise, we
would be "thoroughly skilled", but had no proper language to use.
Jing
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