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It saves so much time in calculating the voltages and currents in circuits. Also, you can make perfect circuit diagrams. The Windows demo of DesignLab (which uses SPICE) is here; it's limited to 50 components, but that's enough to make simple circuits. I don't know if there's a Linux version of the GUI though.

As Treasurer of the Bucknell University ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), myself and the other officers help to persuade industry, faculty, and students computer experts or evangelists to (of OOP, OSS, Linux, etc) come to Bucknell to give a presentation. In the past year or so, we've had guests like Dan Quinlan of Transmeta, speaking on the Linux Standards Base, Ralph Droms (inventor of DHCP), a faculty member at Bucknell, John 'Maddog' Hall (Linux International executive director) on the Flexibility of the Linux OS, and many others. Currently, Eric S. Raymond has added us to his mailing list and will probably come Spring semester to talk about his ideals and beliefs when it comes to software.

What are our methods of obtaining guests? First, it helps to have some connections with someone related to the person you'd like a have speak at your school. Second, being at a top-notch college like Bucknell University tends to give some incentive, perhaps, for people to visit. Finally, persistance does pay off occassionally; if there's someone you really want, make sure you remind them via email or vmail every so often that you'd be absolutely delighted to have them grace you with their presence ;-D

Good luck!

I've setup a lightning fast mirror @ the following URL: http://EKrout.Resnet.Bucknell.edu/i nde x.html. Enjoy!
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Last school year, Bucknell University did block students from using Napster after realizing that the file-sharing program represented at least 40% of all network traffic and resulted in a total saturation of our T-3 at the peak of Napster's popularity here on campus. Since the staff and administrators at Bucknell care a great deal about their students' welfare, they worked hard to provide a legal alternative that didn't saturate our network.

Their final solution was entirely free (i.e. Bucknell paid $0.00); it involved setting up an iBeam server and coordinating with content provider Launch.com so that anyone Bucknellians can listen to a seemingly infinite amount of legal music beamed off of a dish on top of the campus' Computer Center.
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Satisfied?

(Yeah, I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls, but blatant lies or factual errors always pisses me off)

For "real" OO, one must go to high-level languages like Smalltalk and Lisp

The above comment just defeated any hopes of you being taken seriously by anyone with a clue. Lisp is a function al programming language and not an object oriented language. Functional langauges emphasize a lack of state (no global variables or assignment operations) and referential transparency (functions always do the same thing if passed the same parameters) which is in conflict with Object Oriented programming concepts. The chances of Lisp being mistaken for an object oriented language by anyone who actually knows about Object Oriented Programming is zero.

Personally I hate SmallTalk. As the first post to this article indicated OOP's forte is solving large scale problems, primarily because it turns out that C becomes very difficult to maintain past 50,000 to a 100,000 lines of code. The typelessness of smalltalk (as exemplified by Squeak) makes one rely on the documentation practices of other programmers way too much. Typelessness means that if one does not choose variable names that are highly indicative of the the type purpose of an object as well as comment the code properly it will be difficult for maintainers to update the code. In programs with a high degree of coupling this can be extremely aggravating. Several times while trying to write applications in Squeak I hit my head against the brick wall when trying to find out what types a function accepted or what types it returned simply by looking at the code for the function. Sometimes it would take looking through methods in 4 to 6 classes before I could figure exactly what type had been passed to a function and what it returned, of course by then I would have forgotten why I was looking in the first place. Imagine reading a man page with all the types Xed out. AAAARGH.